For everyone's information: r/Seattle's mod team has stickied this technical debrief in response to this HN post. We are the "external site" that is kinda brigading them.
replyhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetod...
The only thing I'd add is that I see redirects to at least two domains:
reply https://stolidityseashellshotter.com/ezrsb5dd1268e6f6ebaad42916d5d87b8133c0816d3e7
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reply> DDoS
replyI presumed DDoS was used colloquially, but no, they literally added JS so every visitor made a request every 0.3 seconds to that blog server, in response to a blog article. Wholly malicious based on the reporting.
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replyWasn't the "victim" trying to get the "attacker" life in prison for the crime of archiving public information?
replyWhat is this referring to? I tried to find when Jani Patokallio tried to get the people behind archive.today imprisoned, but can't find anything.
replyYeah, everyone is freaking out about the (not very efficient as I can see) DDoS attempt, but it was a response to a totally unprovoked attempt to deanon the maintainer which could cost them freedom at least - and us all the only more or less reliable paywall remover.
replyI don't really care about the motivation? Malware is malware.
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