The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days : technology

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've been supporting Wikipedia with a monthly $5 donation. By now, ~$150 in total! I want to support all kinds of great projects, but I don't have an infinite amount of money to share between everything that exists 😔

I might switch to a monthly donation to The Internet Archive just because of how crucial its existence is.

[–] Slayer@infosec.pub 66 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think The Internet Archive needs it more.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 40 points 5 months ago

Their main argument for not donating to Wikipedia is because it's improperly monetized?

Good. I'm sick of everything good having to have every single aspect of it monetized. Fuck the modern corporate internet

[+] TWeaK@lemm.ee -11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If only they hadn't shot themselves so hard in the foot during covid with their book lending, and dug the hole so much deeper with their piss poor handling of the lawsuit.

While I do very much support what they do, I'd be reluctant to give them money, if only because it might go to paying their dumbass lawyer.

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That lawsuit was a long time in coming. Covid just goosed the schedule forward about a year, and probably made it easier.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

The lawsuit wasn't coming because they were in a strong grey area with one physical copy per digital. By offering unlimited copies they directly invited a lawsuit.

And then their legal defense had absolutely no competency behind it. They didn't come with any legal principles, they basically just said "we shouldn't be punished because we're nice", and then they tried the same style of argument during appeal, basically throwing money away on legal expenses. All the while they were campaigning for donations - the people that supported them were paying the lawyers, not for the IA's regular activities.

[+] Maiznieks@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 108 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or, it's because whoever is doing this hates freedom of information and historical evidence. There's a long list of powerful people and governments who have the resources and will to carry out these attacks.

Cyber warfare is real, and the Internet archive is a museum and library of culture and truth. It provides evidence and context to our past.

As in conventional war, it is valuable to the amoral to destroy culture and truth in order to control it. Many would like to kill that to supplant it with their version of events that can't be refuted with evidence.

[–] xilona@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Well said!

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Betting this is someone desiring to monetize some or all of what they are offering. Could be any malicious government too

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

There's an entire industry that harvests content from archive.org for modern ad spam

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Can you not make that point without the ableism?

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Retard is as ableist as idiot, moron or stupid. So you either need that energy for all of them or to leave it alone.

[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 30 points 5 months ago

how about ddosn’t? Please?

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

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[–] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They should release an app where people can donate a portion of their storage to be used for redundancy in case anything happens to the archive.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While I fully support the spirit of this idea, the problem here has little to do with a lack of storage redundancy and everything to do with the bandwidth limitations of a nonprofit company vs a malicious nation state that would seek to deny access to this sort of resource. Basically, given enough bandwidth, you either become resilient to most of these attacks or you become capable of performing them yourself on anyone with a slower connection than you.

I think the Internet Archive would be better served by direct donations, although I'd also love to see a complete torrent posted that gets updated regularly for anyone with the storage and bandwidth necessary to grab and then re-seed it. The web content alone is nearly a trillion pages, though, so that's not going to be a long list of volunteers.

[–] xilona@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

As you said, the solution is simple: Decentralized instances.

Anyone could spin a "WebArchive" instance and have the data synced from the other independent nodes... Similar to how crypto ledgers sync transactions...

But wait... this means anyone could see past removed important historical data from websites which may not benefit [ YOU KNOW WHO ]

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 months ago

Yay, crimes against humanity!

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

Is it bad that I keep wondering if one of the big book publishers bought a DDoS from somebody's botnet?

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