Luu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square131fedilinkarrow-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@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square131fedilink
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 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 🍔@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 months agohttps://github.com/iamtraction/ZOD 42kB ZIP file which decompresses into 4.5 PB.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 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