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

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Then it still makes no sense, as you being unable to take down the content means you also very likely can’t edit the content. I can’t think of a situation where you:

Need content to not be scraped
Need time to remove/edit that content
Have access to do the above
Don’t have access to pull the content immediately
Have control of a large enough botnet to take down Internet Archive
Don’t have a big enough botnet to take down the aforementioned content

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Well that's my point... It doesn't make sense because you can just go after the fact and make the request to take it all down.

You have to be stupidly paranoid and obscenely stupid to believe that a DDOS is the correct answer if this is the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

On an individual level, having a massive archive of everything you've ever posted isn't always a good thing, especially when mentally ill people will quote mine a single post and then try to misuse it.