Re:Preventing Site Scraping
by paulsutter on Thursday May 17, 2012 @06:36PM
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Great ideas. Love the honeypot.
One more thought: once you discover a badguy, if you signal this immediately you are just speeding up his learning cycle. Don't just cut him off, tarpit him (gradually slow down responses) or return bad data.
One more thought: once you discover a badguy, if you signal this immediately you are just speeding up his learning cycle. Don't just cut him off, tarpit him (gradually slow down responses) or return bad data.