The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days
The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days
The nonprofit organization has announced that it's currently in its "third day of warding off an intermittent DDoS cyber-attack."
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 đ
I might switch to a monthly donation to The Internet Archive just because of how crucial its existence is.
I think The Internet Archive needs it more.
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
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.
Same here. I'm waiting to see that lawsuit reach its final conclusion, I don't want to throw good money after bad.
Even afterward, I'm concerned that they might go do some stupid stunt like that again. I'll want to see if there's any fallout among their leadership over getting into this situation.
how about ddosnât? Please?
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.
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.
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 ]
Yay, crimes against humanity!