GoKawiilThe Cutting Room Floor Hit by Sustained DDoS After Claude AI Ban Dispute
The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF), which had implemented a feature banning visitors using a 'Claude-code' user agent, became the target of a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack. The site's operator says the attack began shortly after a Twitter user was banned under this policy, spread false claims about the incident, and stirred online backlash. Unlike prior bot-based DDoS attempts against the site, this attack flooded the network connection directly, forcing host Linode to null-route the server's traffic.
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The operator suggests the timing of the attack, coming right after the public dispute over the Claude ban, implies a link between the online backlash and the subsequent DDoS, though no attacker has been confirmed. The incident illustrates how disputes over AI-related site policies can escalate into real infrastructure attacks, and highlights the limits of common bot-mitigation tools like Anubis against volumetric network attacks.
- TCRF banned users with a 'Claude-code' user agent, sparking a public dispute after a user evaded the ban.
- A subsequent DDoS attack flooded TCRF's network connection, forcing host Linode to null-route the server.
- The site operator believes the timing suggests a link between the Twitter backlash and the attack, though this is not confirmed.
Source: blog.xkeeper.net, 2026-09-24
Published there as: “August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem”
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