Luu Tuyen to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months agoTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square129fedilinkarrow-up1573arrow-down17
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 Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square129fedilink
minus-square@jagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish11•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 🍔linkfedilinkEnglish16•7 months agohttps://github.com/iamtraction/ZOD 42kB ZIP file which decompresses into 4.5 PB.
minus-square@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•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