Comment by Shank

1 day ago

It is academically very interesting to think about this in light of their long-standing dispute with Cloudflare (https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...) over EDNS, which could have privacy implications attached.

I think no matter how you slice it though, it's unethical and reprehensible to coordinate (even a shoddy) DDoS leveraging your visitors as middlemen. This is effectively coordinating a botnet, and we shouldn't condone this behavior as a community.

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qmarchi  1 day ago

It's definitely interesting to see this roll around since the only individuals that see the CAPCHA page mentioned, are users of Cloudflare's DNS services (knowingly or not).

P.S. Shout-out to dang for dropping the flags. I have a small suspicion that their may be some foul play, given the contents...

  • greyface-  18 hours ago

    > the only individuals that see the CAPCHA page mentioned, are users of Cloudflare's DNS services

    I don't think this is true. I run my own recursive DNS resolver, and get a CAPTCHA when visiting archive.today.

    • k33l0r  18 hours ago

      I use my ISP's default DNS servers and have consistently gotten the CAPTCHA page for weeks now. The CAPTCHA seems to be broken too, rendering archive.today entirely inaccessible.

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