• snownyte@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    For all we know, could be some fat teenager doing it for the “lulz” or just “winning” by owning them libs.

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      5 months ago

      That would be very difficult though for a site as large as the Internet Archive. They will most definitely have intricate defense strategies and lots of bandwidth. Cannot really imagine a teenager to be capable of that unless their parents are billionaires.

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        5 months ago

        Have you seen how slow their site is normally? Just request loads of obscure random pages and it will just eat their IO.

        Throw some standard ddos on top to obscure things and your good? (Bad)

        Edit: I know nothing about their storage, so I may be wrong. It just feels like they are held together with spit and prayers at the best of times.

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      Lol, even the “own the lib” types I’m hard pressed to believe would do this. Alot of them probably benefit from IA in that they often pull stuff from there for their smear or attack campaigns.