mad_asshatter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoThe Internet Archive is under a DDoS attackbsky.appexternal-linkmessage-square218fedilinkarrow-up11.36Karrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
arrow-up11.36Karrow-down1external-linkThe Internet Archive is under a DDoS attackbsky.appmad_asshatter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square218fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
minus-squareGood_morning@lemmynsfw.comcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·5 months agoThat 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.
minus-squareafraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoWould webcrawling look like a DDoS?
minus-squarexavier666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoHeavy traffic is different from a DDoS, assuming the attacker is using standard DDoS techniques (refusing connection after confirmation from server)
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.
Would webcrawling look like a DDoS?
Heavy traffic is different from a DDoS, assuming the attacker is using standard DDoS techniques (refusing connection after confirmation from server)