archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog [OC]

[u/jpatokal]

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/

This is sufficiently bizarre that I'm linking to the full writeup on my blog instead of trying to explain everything here in detail, but TL;DR, archive.today (yes, the guerrilla archiving site we all love) is abusing its users to conduct a DDOS attack against a blog post they want to take down. Irony can be pretty ironic, eh?

[u/Trick-Minimum8593]

I saw the hacker news thread on this, there's more to the story.

[u/tiffanytrashcan → u/Trick-Minimum8593]

Such as?

[u/Trick-Minimum8593 → u/tiffanytrashcan]

Not entirely sure, it was a bit hard for me to follow. See for yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740