Re: deken down?

Winfried Ritsch via Pd-list <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:36:49 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general
Organization Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik
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From: Winfried Ritsch <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PD] Re: deken down?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:36:49 +0200
Message-ID: <12938639.O9o76ZdvQC@ras>
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Dear IOhannes,=20

Many thanks again for your engagement and fix fixing the site,=20
your the best.

mfg winfried

Am Montag, 27. Juli 2026, 09:54:38 Mitteleurop=C3=A4ische Sommerzeit schrie=
b IEM=20
Network Operation Center (IOhannes m zm=C3=B6lnig) via Pd-list:
> On 7/27/26 06:37, IOhannes m zm=C3=B6lnig via Pd-list wrote:
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> > I'll try again to fix this in the next few hours ...
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> TL;DR i've implemented some blunt and some more sophisticated website=20
> protection schemes, that hopefully restore functionality of our beloved=20
> puredata.info sites, including <https://deken.puredata.info/>
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> more detailed information (riddled with technobabble) for those intereste=
d:
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> after more analysis it seems that anthropic and friends are not really=20
> to blame, and it is just an ordinary DDoS attack.
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> since the attack is primarily targeted at <https://git.puredata.info/>,=20
> i've now taken this site off the grid (that's the blunt tool).
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> git.puredata.info provided a git view on the old subversion repositories=
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> on sourceforge (where development happened in the age of Pd-extended).
> imo, it is mostly of historic value. as such, i think the damage of=20
> taking this site down (temporarily?) is manageable.
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> additionally i have also added a few more crawler traps to most=20
> puredata.info websites (iocaine[1] resp. anubis[2]) that should shield=20
> them against resource depletion by adversary clients (that's the more=20
> sophisticated approach).
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> if you notice any strange behaviour, please contact me directly (or via=20
> the mailinglist).
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> happy patching,
> gfdasmr
> IOhannes
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> [1] <https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/>
> [2] <https://anubis.techaro.lol/>
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=2D ao.Univ.Prof. DI Winfried Ritsch=20
=2D [email protected] - http://iem.at/ritsch
=2D Institut fuer Elektronische Musik und Akustik,  University of Music and=
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Dramatic Art Graz
=2D mobil: ++43-664-2439369 Tel. ++43-316-389-3510 (3170)
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