I think IA is already overloaded as-is. I know it’s hard to keep that insane amount of storage available but it’s still always slow. They probably only have one server location, as opposed to a global CDN like YouTube.
The world we live in. I'm sure we will see someone bragging on the dark web
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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 11 months ago
9point6@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think the slowness is partly by design.
Their goal is to make everything available, not necessarily available quickly. They’re not hosting a CDN and they want to discourage people from treating it as such. It also puts off scrapers as I imagine the rate at which you could scrape is slower than the rate at which content is added to the archive
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 11 months ago
I know. I’m not saying I need it any faster and most people in fact don’t, but as they have no incentive to widen their bandwidth, we can expect outages if they ever make some lawless group angry.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They have several but the main one on the Western hemisphere is an old church in SF.
I think library of Alexandria in Egypt is another location?
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Wait… Alexandria… Now Internet Archive is literal Internet Library of Alexandria.
DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I would bet good money the attack is backed by people who want their old content offline, but dont want to been viewed in public as the bad guys.
Vent@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m more cynical, I think it’s just for clout and marketing. IA is widely known and used, so an attack is guaranteed to be noticed and generate news articles. They’re also known for having large robust infrastructure, but they aren’t large enough that an attack is impossible, so a successful attack is impressive yet still feasible. If someone can pull it off, it would make great marketing for their black market DDOS service and also grant huge bragging rights in certain communities.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I’m not sure why you are getting down voted. This is the conclusion I came to as well.
qaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
IA is one of those rare organizations that have an incredible online reach and notoriety but aren’t backed by a trillion dollar corporation. Taking them down is easier compared to other sites with the same amounts of traffic while still providing a lot of publicity. Another example would be Wikipedia, however most of their content is plain HTML and easily cacheable too. The IA has a lot of heavy media; videos, old software, photo’s, etc not even mentioning the ability search over all those millions of pieces of content. It seems like a prime target for this kind of pubilicty stunt.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
“Let’s vandalize our local library”
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
some fuckheads are actually doing this to the SPL.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The IQ of a mob is it’s dumbest member divided by the number of people in the mob. I think that Terry Pratchett stole that line.
It’s worse when the people in the mob don’t have to leave the basement
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Chances are this is a professional group with a botnet composed of potentially millions of computers
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 months ago
…and their idea of a good time is to attack the National Archives
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Real not very fun answer: China or Russia.
The_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Control of information is the real power.
Look at every dictatorship. Look at extremism. Look at wife beaters ffs. If someone is trying to DDOS the Internet Archive then someone is trying to mess with the free flow of information.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
A doubt it. If someone wanted to do real harm they would launch a more traditional attack
maynarkh@feddit.nl 11 months ago
DDoS is the most traditional brute force attack you can hit a website with.
Setting fire to the servers is trickier.
soloner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why is it a subway sandwich?
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
That’s not a sandwich, it’s a sub. A sandwich is made from sliced bread, not from a bun. That’s why a sausage sanga is a sandwich but a hot dog isn’t. Hot dog has a bun, disqualifying it.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
That’s not a sub, that’s an underground metropolitan transportation system. A sub is a little train that goes in tunnels under the city.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone please correct Ben’s BBQ.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
Did you know a bun is sliced bread?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
A sub is a sandwich. Any starchy food with things inside is a sandwich.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Why wouldn’t it be a sandwich
umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
install the archive warrior if you have spare server space and help them out
StaySquared@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s bad actors all of kinds.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Ive half been waiting for a headline from Internet Archive
“Its not a DDoS its actually a bunch of webscrapers collecting non-paywalled articles for AI”
AIhasUse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Dude to me has always been gender neutral
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Get off the cross, we need the wood
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Or stay on and die already
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
?
salarua@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
get another joke
s12@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I think that comment said something along the lines of;
Did you seriously just assume the gender of the DDOSers?!?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
They are probably being paid by copyright holders
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I doubt it.
The copyright holders can just sue and lobby Congress
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Yeah but they might be able to get it shut down quicker and cheaper through less legal means