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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (bsky.app)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lots of grand conspiracy theories in this thread when, in the end, it's probably some bored script kiddy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I doubt it. I'd sooner think it's a corporation or state actor.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How does taking the website down for a few hours help those people? Especially a state actor? If it was the US government or someone like them wouldn't they do something more permanent? Actually wipe the website?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Some news source released something that got redacted based on government pressure. Archive made a snapshot of the news source. Now the state actor goes after the Archive to prevent time sensitive information from spreading. They benefit from the information not being widely available immediately.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh....so what got released today?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How would I know? The news source retracted their statement and archive.org is down...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Up for me. It was down a few hours tops. And I remember checking it around the time you made that post as well?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Israel attacking Palestine again possibly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What does knocking the website offline for a few hours do for their war?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

OwN tEh LiBs !!!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Who knows, how in The world would I know

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

err....it was your suggestion?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I offered a plausible explanation never did I suggest it was THE reason. Near zero chance we will ever know

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I just don't see how its plausible Israel wanted a website to go down for 2 hours to help them bomb Palestine

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

Who knows, could be anyone for any reason

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Aliens or illuminati, for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it still something you can do to big sites the way people did back in the 2000's?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yep but usually the worst case scenario is a few hours of downtime.