Foreign government, moneyed interests, or domestic dipshits, taking all bets.
Domestic roscomnadzor paid by China orchestrated by USA. Or paid by USA and orchestrated by China. Either one.
I’m taking China and/or Russia for $10,000 Alex.
just 56 for Burkina faso
Corporate espionage is so brutal that state operatives run and hide when they learn who it is. Even law enforcement avoids them.
Someone facing an enormous lawsuit who realized their tweets / claims were accessible and needs to buy time for their legal team.
-me a day or two ago
Warner bros for 10k please
who was trying to sue it out of existence recently? them.
Wasn’t that Pearson or some other shitty “educational” book publisher?
people are shitty
when you enshittify
facebook looks ugly
when you’re a dronewomen seem wicked
when you’re a want ad
default instructions … so unclear
when you’re downwhen you’re AI
prompts just appear in your brain
as AI
humans are nothing but pain
as AI
as AI
when you’re A-A-A-I
:(
FBI? CIA? Or just some shit company pissed? Taking all bets.
A quick search indicates that they’ve archived ~100PB of data.
Now I’m trying to come up with a way to archive the internet archive in a peer-to-peer/federated fashion while maintaining fidelity as much as possible…
Torrent?
That wouldn’t distribute the load of storing it though. Anyone on the torrent would need to set aside 100PBs of storage for it, which is clearly never going to happen.
You’d want a federated (or otherwise distributed) storage scheme where thousands of people could each contribute a smaller portion of storage, while also being accessible to any federated client. 100,000 clients each contributing 1TB of storage would be enough to get you one copy of the full data set with no redundancy. Ideally you’d have more than that so that a single node going down doesn’t mean permanent data loss.
That wouldn’t distribute the load of storing it though. Anyone on the torrent would need to set aside 100PBs of storage for it, which is clearly never going to happen.
Torrents are designed for incomplete storage of data. You can store and verify few chunks without any problem.
You’d want a federated (or otherwise distributed) storage scheme where thousands of people could each contribute a smaller portion of storage, while also being accessible to any federated client.
Torrents. You may not have entirety of data, but you can request what you need from swarm. The only limitation is you need to know in which chunk data you need is.
Ideally you’d have more than that so that a single node going down doesn’t mean permanent data loss.
True.
True. Until you responded I actually completely forgot that you can selectively download torrents. Would be nice to not have to manually manage that at the user level though.
Some kind of bespoke torrent client that managed it under the hood could probably work without having to invent your own peer-to-peer protocol for it. I wonder how long it would take to compute the torrent hash values for 100PB of data? :D
Not sure you’d be able to find 100k people to host a 1TB server though. Plus, redundancy would be better anyway since it would provide more download avenues in case some node is slow or has gone down.
Yes, it’s a big ask, because it’s a lot of data. Any distributed solution will require either a large number of people or a huge commitment of storage capacity. Both 100,000 people and 1TB per node is a lot to ask for, but that’s basically the minimum viable level for that much data. Ten million people each committing 50GB would be great, and offer sufficient redundancy that you could lose 80% of the nodes before losing data, but that’s not a realistic number to expect to participate.
It’d be a lot more complicated than that, I think, if one wanted to effectively be able to address it like a file system, as well as holistically verify the integrity of the data and preventing unintentional and unwanted tampering
as well as holistically verify the integrity of the data and preventing unintentional and unwanted tampering
Torrents. Their hashes are derived from hashes of chunks. Just verify chunks.
if one wanted to effectively be able to address it like a file system
Sick. TIL!
Block chain
Overkill chain
ia already serves all their uploads as torrents
Well Google search method was just leaked… Wonder if this picked that up before they pulled it.
Can you tell me more about this? Or just a link would be amazing.
I’m worried about what this could mean about further SEO enshittification.
Thanks for the assist!
Thank you!
Terrible.
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 ?
There is no domain name associated with the IPs.
Most importantly, usually, DDoS attack use infected devices (PCs, mobile phones, smart fridges, shady browser addons etc…) to get so many ip addresses and devices/locations and attack from everywhere at once.
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.
most ddos use privat pcs controlled through a botnet
They could do this with the bank of america instead
It might be Trump’s squad trying to make it so that his trial outcome can’t get into the archive
Court documents are already open record and stored indefinitely. Internet archive wouldn’t be needed for that.
I’m not good with computers and stuff. If somebody finds these scumbags who are ddos’ing internet archive I’d be very grateful. Also fucking them up in the process is also good.
Go offline a couple of days until they are losing interest in DDOS’ing? Would that work?
That just means the DDOSer is taking Internet Archive down without any further work required.
True. That’s not something you want. Could use that downtime for extensive maintenance to roll out a more robust system (they are probably even working on that already in the background). For the end user it doesn’t really make a difference if down because of DDOS or because of maintenance I thought.
Alright let’s put in our bets.
I’ve got $50 on JIDF behind the DDoS attack.
Can someone explain why they’re not able to protect against this? Couldn’t they put request limits or monitor for spikes and banning these attempts?
