Michael McMahon Explains Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks on the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Michael McMahon, a "GNU/Linux Systems Administrator" at the FSF, has just explained how the FSF deals with cyberattacks. "With the rise of aggressive scrapers building datasets to train LLMs," he says, "we needed to invest a lot of resources into thwarting the attackers."
The issue is not limited to "aggressive scrapers" and "LLMs". There are many deliberate attacks out there, some can try to obscure their real motivation by saying "hey hi" or "training" or whatever.
The Web is very turbulent. Many sites give up on it. Some fight back, though there's cost to it. Sites that become static lower the cost. The FSF still uses a bloated CMS.
The real solution is a curb on botnets. A mitigation strategy, however, would involve going static. █