Luu Tuyen to [email protected]English • 7 months agoTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square128fedilinkarrow-up1568
arrow-up1568external-linkTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comLuu Tuyen to [email protected]English • 7 months agomessage-square128fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•7 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 🍔linkfedilinkEnglish15•7 months agohttps://github.com/iamtraction/ZOD 42kB ZIP file which decompresses into 4.5 PB.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•7 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