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Re:I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit by squizzeak on Thursday February 13, 2020 @05:46PM (#22322167)
I always referred to this practice as “tarpitting”, I was surprised to see nobody else here does!
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Re:I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit by manicdee on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:17PM (#22323439)
“Tarpitting” is a specific type of network-layer defence which is not related to degradation of service. A tarpit will typically stretch out response time to network-layer and some application-layer communications in order to waste wallclock time of spammers.
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