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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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original, saw this somewhere else too. ddos stuff. this one blames ru for archive.today mess. sounds about right. didn' intend it to look like an announcement here. it kind of did. post based on ars story, apparently. who knows

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[+] -7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Bro any archiving/scraping tool can be used for ddos u just tell it to archive the same site over and over and now u have a different IP spamming the endpoint

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago*

    In this case, their CAPTCHA page intentionally included code to DoS a particular blog, sending a request to search for a random string every 300ms (search is very CPU-intensive). This was regardless of the archived site you were trying to view.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Any good archiver will check for an archived copy before making a request, and batch requests. This was very different than the attack you’re imagining — if you opened any archive.today page, it would poll a developer’s personal blog, regardless of whether you were interacting with content from that blog.

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