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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Internet Archive (@archive.org)

Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable. We are working on it & will post updates in comments.

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Lots of grand conspiracy theories in this thread when, in the end, it’s probably some bored script kiddy
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  Is it still something you can do to big sites the way people did back in the 2000’s?
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    Yep but usually the worst case scenario is a few hours of downtime.

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