FreeBSD says AI firms scrape its infrastructure with botnets, calling it DDoS
moxyte · reddit · 2026-11-12
FreeBSD's Q3 2026 status report reveals its infrastructure is under constant attack from scrapers collecting LLM training data. AI companies have largely moved scraping from their own easily-identified servers to botnets ("residential proxies"), making blocks at the network edge costly in collateral damage. The Cluster Administration Team spent considerable time mitigating these distributed denial-of-service attacks, with the project describing itself as "under constant attack" and explicitly calling it DDoS.
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