Saidit is currently undergoing the largest DDOS attack we've ever had

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It wasn't tor, we were monitoring tor and traffic through tor didn't increase. But they were using vpns.

The traffic numbers are just the raw connection numbers, so there should be no smoothing or delay, but interesting ideas.

It does seem to take a while to "power up" which indicates to me it's a series of bots that they have to get started 1 by 1, and the fact it lasted almost exactly 4 hours indicates it's probably an hourly paid hire service. Like hire-a-DDOS. Otherwise they would just leave it on 24 hours a day, but they don't.

It's an odd situation, that's for sure. You have some good ideas in the right areas.