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gweinberg ◴[] No.41897120[source]
Does anyone know who is targeting the Internet Archive, and why? I get the impression the attacks are too sophisticated for it to just be vandal punks.
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1. lolinder ◴[] No.41898192[source]
> I get the impression the attacks are too sophisticated for it to just be vandal punks.

What gives that impression? Everything I've seen about the attacker's messaging says "vandal punk(s)" to me, and nothing in what I've seen of the IA's systems screams Fort Knox. It wouldn't surprise me if they actually had a pretty lax approach to security on the assumption that there's very little reason to target them.