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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (bsky.app)
submitted 6 months ago by dogsnest@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That gave me a thought, could be a group trying to scrape some older content for use in feeding an llm since reddit was obviously a bad choice.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Would webcrawling look like a DDoS?

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Heavy traffic is different from a DDoS, assuming the attacker is using standard DDoS techniques (refusing connection after confirmation from server)