From historical posts on HN:
Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 (8 months ago, 366 points, 178 comments)
Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 (9 months ago, 140 points, 71 comments)
> DDoS
I 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.
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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetod...
The only thing I'd add is that I see redirects to at least two domains:
https://stolidityseashellshotter.com/ezrsb5dd1268e6f6ebaad42916d5d87b8133c0816d3e7
https://gullible-thanks.com/w5FDGi{"deleted":true,"id":50282254,"parent":50280975,"time":1793228960,"type":"comment"}
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Wasn't the "victim" trying to get the "attacker" life in prison for the crime of archiving public information?
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