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Why, what's the point in doing such nonsense? Unless it's someone with lots of money, contacts in the dark web, and some historic Barbara Streisand type chip on the shoulder.
It's probably because someone saved incriminating evidence on it and they refused to take it down.
https://mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle/1125141764988452...
@internetarchive is back up!
this is a back-and-forth with attackers. Sees weekends and holidays are popular.
we made adjustments, but we will see.
at least Happy Memorial Day!Earlier quoted context omitted.
let me go further: the whole of the copyrighted industry including all media conglomerates (obviously) and all scientific, literary, etc, publishing houses. also, there's a global war, so it well may be a fog-of-war technique or like somebody else also mentioned: someone needs something to stay quite for a little bit as part of some larger operation
Doubt this is coordinated - more likely a singular (m/b)illionaire wanted a post/photo/video, or multiple of, deleted for good, perhaps for suppression of legal evidence, and this was one way of bringing some firepower to a… library. One of the internets biggest libraries too. Odd.
What are the ways to manage a DDoS attack, preferably using open source? Don't say Cloudflare because they're an extortionist firm.
The only universal way IMHO, is to associate a small cost to every internet request. The cost has to be as small as possible, but it has to be there for million/billion/trillion requests to add up the cost and make it uneconomical to continue the attack past some point. It is the same problem with email spam. What's stopping someone from sending billions of spam mails? If we suppose that: a blockchain exists which is…
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Then wouldn't it make more sense to take down a target with few eyes on it? Since you're not paid, why deal with the risk of an attack that will make the news?
Making the news is the goal. As long as a few people can verify it was you, word will get around about the person who can take down big targets, and will cite the news articles as part of the proof.
This is why I’ve gotten into the habit of maintaining my own WWW archive of sites I find interesting. Probably have around 1 TiB now, and One Of These Days I’d like to set my network up so it can serve arbitrary sites directly from local archive to revive any site I want. I have a `wget-mirror` shell function invoking wget with all the trimmings that takes care of 99% of sites. I’ll edit the full command into this co…
(Oh, never mind YouTube videos that I once added to playlists ... that later disappear leaving only holes in my playlists.)
What are the ways to manage a DDoS attack, preferably using open source? Don't say Cloudflare because they're an extortionist firm.
The only universal way IMHO, is to associate a small cost to every internet request. The cost has to be as small as possible, but it has to be there for million/billion/trillion requests to add up the cost and make it uneconomical to continue the attack past some point. It is the same problem with email spam. What's stopping someone from sending billions of spam mails? If we suppose that: a blockchain exists which is…
(also, you're arguably just moving the problem to DDoSing the payment processing / firewall mechanism)
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Doubt cloudflare has anything to do with it. The operators most likely don't want to openly expose their website's ip addresses.
That is exactly the problem. These services are constantly at war with each other and are attacked by competitors. Cloudflare provides DDoS protection to the DDoS providers so they can keep their services online, which directly benefits Cloudflare by DDoS being a bigger problem than if they were all busy attacking each other. This is a sampling of currently available services and who they use for DDoS protection: str…
What are the ways to manage a DDoS attack, preferably using open source? Don't say Cloudflare because they're an extortionist firm.
I have asked this a few times and never gotten an answer beyond "One day they could turn evil." What is the reason Cloudflare is an extortionist firm? I am way more concerned about Amazon than Cloudflare.
Because they are a publicly traded company
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It's probably because someone saved incriminating evidence on it and they refused to take it down.
If it's on their own site, that wouldn't be a problem. IIRC, archive.org stops serving pages that later appear in a robots.txt file.