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shagie • yesterday at 5:04 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

From historical posts on HN:

Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 (8 months ago, 366 points, 178 comments)

Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 (9 months ago, 140 points, 71 comments)


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consumer451 • yesterday at 8:54 PM

For everyone's information: r/Seattle's mod team has stickied this technical debrief in response to this HN post. We are the "external site" that is kinda brigading them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetod...

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no-name-here • yesterday at 6:55 PM

> DDoS

I presumed DDoS was used colloquially, but no, they literally added JS so every visitor made a request every 0.3 seconds to that blog server, in response to a blog article. Wholly malicious based on the reporting.

Vaushite • yesterday at 9:16 PM

Wasn't the "victim" trying to get the "attacker" life in prison for the crime of archiving public information?

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