mad_asshatter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoThe Internet Archive is under a DDoS attackbsky.appexternal-linkmessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up11.08Karrow-down15file-text
arrow-up11.07Karrow-down1external-linkThe Internet Archive is under a DDoS attackbsky.appmad_asshatter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square91fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePhegan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up86·6 months agoSomeone wanted to erase history.
minus-squareNziom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·6 months agoLuckily non of the data was deleted
minus-squaregirsaysdoom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down2·6 months agoIt might be that someone wanted to change something that was on a website before the archive could get to it too.
minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·6 months 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.
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.