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FSF Infrastructure Under Constant Attack

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 14, 2025

Many GNU sites/domains/subdomains (dozens of them) are still DDoSed to death, or are sometimes - at least by the looks of it - taken offline due to the strain. At the FSF they blame LLM bots, but the scale seems so immense that one must start to wonder, is this intentional and well targeted? Remember that Microsoft staff has had a habit of attacking the FSF. There are companies other than Microsoft that dislike what the FSF does.

Even mailing lists' archives, not dynamic pages but simple static pages, are not accessible. This has been happening a lot (about 50% of the time) this past month or so:

The disconnect (literally) has had an effect on credibility. █