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Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” (www.neowin.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] figaro@lemdro.id 1 points 5 months ago

Couldn't they just use cloudflare or something?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Maybe temporarily switch to a different address? And leave fake addresses to catch the ddos. Then just keep changing addresses using an IPFS system to front-end the new address?

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[–] juja@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Can someone eli5 to me why it’s hard to track down these dipshits ? Even if it’s a distributed attack, picking a single IP and doing a lookup for the domain name and checking with the registrar might actually reveal their identity right ? Of course I’m guessing law enforcement needs to be involved to force registrars to give up that info if it’s not publicly available? Are there laws that say a ddos is illegal ?

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

DDoS attacks are performed by botnets. What is a botnet? Well, you know about viruses etc, right? Your PC gets infected and it becomes a part of the botnet. Now police do the investigation, they look up IPs and they see YOUR IP and come to YOUR house. See what the problem is?

And, frankly, your PC doesn't even have to be infected to become a part of an attack. There are plenty of hacked web sites, which still look like nothing has changed, but they will contain a hidden JavaScript code which will force your browser to flood the victim. Again, the police will only find YOU.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It might be Trump's squad trying to make it so that his trial outcome can't get into the archive

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