mad_asshatter to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoThe Internet Archive is under a DDoS attackbsky.appmessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up11.14Karrow-down15file-text
arrow-up11.13Karrow-down1external-linkThe Internet Archive is under a DDoS attackbsky.appmad_asshatter to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square104fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish20•1 year agoIt might be that someone wanted to change something that was on a website before the archive could get to it too.
minus-square@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish29•1 year agoThat’s a ridiculous amount of effort to go through to slow down a scraper for one site, especially when that site could just be… turned off.
minus-square@xavier666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish69•1 year agoModification of history is one of the most common tools of dictators
minus-squareNziomlinkfedilinkEnglish-4•1 year agoBut they have back up to the entire thing am pretty sure any change would be detectable if a dictator is behind this then he’s extremely stupid
minus-square@Agent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish22•1 year agoIf the internet archive goes offline we can just view a cached version of it at the internet archi OH NO!
minus-squareNziomlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI thought there back online was there any update on the issue?
Why out of all sites why internet archive
Someone wanted to erase history.
Luckily non of the data was deleted
It might be that someone wanted to change something that was on a website before the archive could get to it too.
That’s a ridiculous amount of effort to go through to slow down a scraper for one site, especially when that site could just be… turned off.
Modification of history is one of the most common tools of dictators
But they have back up to the entire thing am pretty sure any change would be detectable if a dictator is behind this then he’s extremely stupid
If the internet archive goes offline we can just view a cached version of it at the internet archi OH NO!
I thought there back online was there any update on the issue?