On 1/19/26 01:22, Ian Kelling wrote:
Jacob Bachmeyer <[email protected]> writes:
On 1/14/26 18:20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi folks,
I apologize if this is off-topic, but I've not been hearing back from
principals in an email-driven procedure, and have no way of verifying
the status thereof.
My understanding is that those keyrings are managed by the FSF sysadmins
and they are currently mostly snowed under fighting MACAC attacks on the
FSF/GNU infrastructure. So while the servers are up, the admins are
falling to DoS attacks. :-(
We got Branden registered. Thanks for following up Jacob. What is a
MACAC attack? Regarding the DDOSes, I just want to mention that we've
been improving our systems to be good at defending in ways that will
serve us for many years to come, it is just a fair bit of work.
"MACAC": "MAssive Cloudy Abuse Crawler", pronounced like "macaque" to
compare them to unthinking monkeys.
In other words, the "AI" crawlers that operate from large blocks of IP
addresses in order to make fail2ban useless because you never see a
second request from the same IP address anyway.
-- Jacob
