On: Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs

[Surac]

Sure it wasn't a AI crawler?

[simonw → Surac]

Why would an AI crawler do this?

> Attackers found and deliberately targeted URLs that resulted in cache misses, such as non-existent pages with unique paths (404s) as well as temporary redirects (302s)

[mitxela → Surac]

There's no evidence the crawlers are AI-related.