Luu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comLuu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square117fedilink
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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 🍔@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agohttps://github.com/iamtraction/ZOD 42kB ZIP file which decompresses into 4.5 PB.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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