mad_asshatter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoThe Internet Archive is under a DDoS attackbsky.appexternal-linkmessage-square216fedilinkarrow-up11.36Karrow-down17file-text
arrow-up11.36Karrow-down1external-linkThe Internet Archive is under a DDoS attackbsky.appmad_asshatter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square216fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGood_morning@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·6 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-up6·6 months agoWould webcrawling look like a DDoS?
minus-squarexavier666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 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)