Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by Hamuko on Sunday March 22, 2026 @12:47PM (#47479405)

Does this mean that the Great Cannon of China is not a botnet because it stops working when you close your browser?

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by croes on Sunday March 22, 2026 @01:42PM (#47480042)

Does the Great Cannon of China coordinate the attacks?

Does archive.today?

Hijacking a software like the browser is something completely different to a simple JS on a website.

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by Hamuko on Sunday March 22, 2026 @01:46PM (#47480089)

>Does the Great Cannon of China coordinate the attacks?

Yes.

>Does archive.today?

Yes.

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by croes on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:09PM (#47480362)

How does archive.today coordinate the attack?

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by fastball on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:01PM (#47480868)

By telling visitor browsers to DoS the site.

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by croes on Sunday March 22, 2026 @04:25PM (#47481774)

That’s not really coordinating.

It’s just a website with a simple request loop, not C&C server tells when the attacks have to happen.

This doesn’t make your browser a bot

  setInterval(function() {
            fetch("https://gyrovague.com/?s=" + Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 3 + Math.random() * 8), {
                referrerPolicy: "no-referrer",
                mode: "no-cors"
            });
        }, 300);

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