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Don't you have something like Akamai in front of your service ? From personal experience in a past life Akamai was completely successful in defending critical platforms?

It really sucks how difficult it is to preserve online human history. Hope you guys can get through this and the Archive can live to see another day!

Sure would be nice if we could help 💙🌻💙

Man. Attacking Internet Archive is a low blow, dude The hell were these hackers thinking?

Is there any way we can find the assailants and assail them?

What can we do considering some passwords have been hacked?

every time a big profit-driven corp tries to burn another Library of Alexandria

Hang in there.

This is like hacking Wikipedia. It's a site that's a pure public good. If there's something on it you don't want people to see you probably deserve it.

That was another way of someone preventing my dreams from becoming a reality

There are sick people around.

It takes a pretty crappy person to do something like that.

Hugops, friends

still can't believe the attacker's reasons are legit, someone has to be playing some advanced mind games

I bet that they are contracted by the publishers that sued

Hope these people attacking you burn hotter than the sun tbh

wait I was trying to access internet archive this morning and it wouldn't load. That explains a lot.

Yes. The Wayback Machine is part of the Internet Archive.

wild stretch by the hacking group that somehow hacking the internet archive is supposed to stop israel

It's an all out war on the principles of internet archive. Hurt them til they disappear or folks quit using it or contribute to it. That's the reason.

That and governments upset about yet another site publishing information that makes them look bad.

This sucks :( wish diarrhea on the attackers

I wish you all a swift recovery from this unfortunate event. Thank you for your dedication and resilience.

now here’s the question… WHO would and WHY would they attack Internet Archive data?

What is DDOS?

Couple of excellent articles just recently published about the IA's legal troubles. Which may or may not have contributed to this attack. www.wired.com/story/intern... www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Why would anyone attack such an altruistic site. I'm suspecting this is either a government military trying to enforce censorship policies, or corporate warfare upset about storage of copyrighted material.

Oh we're so cooked

They said they were hacking to help Palestine, and Palestinians called them out on it.

For either preventing my dreams from becoming a reality

It's probably for money because they view it a threat or something. So, it's a perfectly sensible reason for the third of humanity that seems ok with self identifying as an asshole.

I'm sorry this is happening to you. I wish I could offer some help. It's sickening when bad actors target people and a group wanting only to help others. I hope you can find a tech organization that can protect you from these goons.

Best wishes 🙏

I'm blessed to see your presence

This morning someone on my team asked, 'who would do this and why?' The answer is: those who benefit from our forgetting, those whose agenda is harmed by access to knowledge. For the people who want to revise history, science, and the events that describe our world, the IA is a problem.

I am soooo impatient 😭😭😭😭

If are looking for volunteer infosec and infrastructure folks I can help you get a pre verified bunch in a hurry. (SafeEscape.org usually supports individuals but our teams comes from corporate infosec. I’m sure some of them will be happy to jump in. )

Welp, that's a hacker's strategy for ya. Go for the things that will cause the most disruption, even to schools and colleges that may rely on it for textbooks or whatnot. Such a shame someone would do such a thing.