Possibly linux to Memes@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 7 months agoThe world we live in. I'm sure we will see someone bragging on the dark webimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1786arrow-down121
arrow-up1765arrow-down1imageThe world we live in. I'm sure we will see someone bragging on the dark webPossibly linux to Memes@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squareThe_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·7 months agoControl of information is the real power. Look at every dictatorship. Look at extremism. Look at wife beaters ffs. If someone is trying to DDOS the Internet Archive then someone is trying to mess with the free flow of information.
minus-squarePossibly linuxOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down7·edit-27 months agoI doubt it. If someone wanted to do real harm they would launch a more traditional attack
minus-squaremaynarkh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 months agoDDoS is the most traditional brute force attack you can hit a website with. Setting fire to the servers is trickier.
minus-squarePossibly linuxOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·edit-27 months agoThey could target an employee in a phishing email or leave USB drives on the doorstep
minus-squareReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoAgain, a lot more work than a ddos
Control of information is the real power.
Look at every dictatorship. Look at extremism. Look at wife beaters ffs. If someone is trying to DDOS the Internet Archive then someone is trying to mess with the free flow of information.
I doubt it. If someone wanted to do real harm they would launch a more traditional attack
DDoS is the most traditional brute force attack you can hit a website with.
Setting fire to the servers is trickier.
They could target an employee in a phishing email or leave USB drives on the doorstep
Again, a lot more work than a ddos