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Re:Robots.txt as a Security Measure? by sixplusone on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:58PM (#20397601)
A few years ago I purposefully put a couple of "interesting" paths in the robots.txt as a honeypot to test/capture bot conformance and malicious actors. Not one hit ever.
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Re:Robots.txt as a Security Measure? by 0xDEFC0DE on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:59PM (#20398295)
They just found a path further up and compromised you via that instead of bothering with the rest of the robots.txt :D
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