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Internet Archive is continuing to experience service disruptions due to a recurrence of a DDoS attack (farside.link)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tweets from @internetarchive:

May 27, 2024 · 3:40 PM UTC

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. This thread will have updates.

May 27, 2024 · 5:11 PM UTC

up again.

This has been a back and forth with the attackers. We have made some adjustments, but geez.

at least, Happy Memorial Day!

May 28, 2024 · 1:46 PM UTC

We are continuing to experience service disruptions due to a recurrence of a ddos attack. We’ll post updates in this thread.

If you wish to view tweets without directly using Twitter, one of these three currently operational Nitter (Nitter is a Twitter front-end focused on privacy) instances may be helpful:

The Internet Archive has a Mastodon account as well, though it doesn't seem to be fully up to date.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Let's hear some good tinfoil hat theories!

I'll start. Maybe one of the LLM/AI companies are trying to bypass newly implemented barrers to training data by using the archive, and it's totally overwhelming their servers?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lawsuit theory, Jean-Luc?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I'd believe it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I think it's more likely that someone is trying to keep competitors from mining it for a short term advantage

[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Who needs it down right now?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Assholes

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Be more specific haha

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Big assholes?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Assholes with know how and resources are likely pretty big

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Someone with their own proprietary large dataset trying to eliminate non-proprietary alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Decent theory money does drive a lot of human behavior.

Any suggestions on who this actor could be?

Google?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

~~Cripto~~ AI Bros.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

money does drive a lot of human ~~behavior~~ insane.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I highly doubt this was done by Google

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

Why wouldn’t companies have already got their data long ago? Internet archive is nothing new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Existing AI companies got their data long ago—but it’s in their interest to create barriers for entry to new AI companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that’s fair.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Someone facing an enormous lawsuit who realized their tweets / claims were accessible and needs to buy time for their legal team.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

elon or bunker bitch?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Bored script kiddies?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

We should have a call for hackers/pentesters/cybersec enthusiasts to find these little shits and break their infrastructure

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

Reminds me of stars wars scene with the Jedi archives been manipulated..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

How did master Obi Wan lose an entire planet? Disgraceful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why don't we just DDOS the DDOSers? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I'd be down

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

What a shame

[+] [email protected] -31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I definitely don't think it's the case, but damn, can you imagine if they were doing this to themselves to drive donations? That would be diabolical.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

That would be a next level bamboozle but if it were true I’m wouldn't even be mad.

If they came out and said this is what we did, I would donate to them just because of how gangster that move is

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

The Internet Archive is so incredible that it’s nearly offensive to even think such a thing heh (not to censor you, just my visceral reaction)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Well, they find themselves in a delicate situation with the US publishing and recording industry associations. It could be one of their resources to keep the library alive by scaring users with the possibility that it will cease to exist due to malicious entities and their advanced techniques, which as I said is not so far from reality