Luu Tuyen to TechnologyEnglish • 2 months agoTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square131arrow-up1573arrow-down17cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1566arrow-down1external-linkTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comLuu Tuyen to TechnologyEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square131cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•2 months agoI think a common nginx config is to just redirect malicious bots to some well-cached terrabyte file. I think hetzner hosts one iirc
minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔linkfedilinkEnglish16•2 months agohttps://github.com/iamtraction/ZOD 42kB ZIP file which decompresses into 4.5 PB.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agowouldn’t it be trivial to defend against that with a hash check if the size matches? though I guess it’s possible to create your own that differs
I think a common nginx config is to just redirect malicious bots to some well-cached terrabyte file. I think hetzner hosts one iirc
https://github.com/iamtraction/ZOD
42kB ZIP file which decompresses into 4.5 PB.
wouldn’t it be trivial to defend against that with a hash check if the size matches?
though I guess it’s possible to create your own that differs