A screenshot of a tweet by “@Sn_darkmeta” writing “The Internet archive has and is suffering from a devastating attack We have been launching several highly successful attacks for five long hours and, to this moment, all their systems are completely down. second round | New attack 09/10/2024 Duration 6 hours https://check-host.net/check-report/1f23fe13k936 https://check-host.net/check-report/1f23fe13k936 https://check-host.net/check-report/1f240686k3ff https://check-host.net/check-report/1f24216bkcd0 @internetarchive : be honest :)” with two images attacked showing how the web archive cannot be reached and a terminal window controlling the DDoS. Below that is a Twitter community note writing “This group claims they took down the Internet Archive because it "belongs to the USA...who support Israel" which is not true Th Archive is not US government, it is a non-profit that includes many resources about Palestine, which we can't now access because of this attack archive.org/about/”

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   Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 23:35:13 JST Erik Uden 🍑

   The Internet Archive ( @internetarchive ) is under attack for a self-named reason that is so nonsensical, many believe it to be a false flag operation. The largest digital and free preservation of most collective human works, especially modern (internet) history, is currently offline, because some skids thought it would be funny.

   The group doing this calls themselves “Blackmeta” and claims to be doing it for... Palestine? The video in which they talk about their motivations shows no efforts trying to explain any link between how bringing the web archive down helps Palestine, or brings attention to that struggle at all. They didn't replace the website with some banner, it's just a DDoS... Even if, how about going after literally any other target? While the Internet Archive is awesome, it's still a nonprofit mostly used by a niche. Taking down the website of any Fortune 500 company, or probably most somewhat larger corporations, would make more sense.

   As I said, the lack of any connection between the stated goal and what is actually being done lead people to believe that this was a massive troll/false flag. I can't yet decide if it's idiotic or masterfully done. All public messaging is but a parody of itself. It's AI generated slop “cool hacker images” with the most overly dramatic editing I've seen.

   If I paid the worst NCIS writer to invent a hacking organization you'd need two people on one keyboard, “a gigabyte of ram”, and a rubix cube to solve inside of your terminal, to defeat, this is what they'd come up with.

   #InternetArchive #Internet_Archive #ProtectTheInternetArchive