Re:Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% o...
by tripzilch on Monday July 30, 2012 @07:01PM
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On the packet level ... hm that's pretty clever, definitely not trivial to fake, either.
Just that if your bot runs from, say, Windows 7 and it spoofs an IE8 user-agent header, or even runs by directly automating IE itself, how do you detect it then? Both of those scenarios are not unlikely at all.
Re:Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% o...
by rscale on Monday July 30, 2012 @08:34PM
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If the bot spoofs a user-agent that is viable for the OS, then you need to rely on other signals. It only works as a component of a defense in depth strategy.
Just that if your bot runs from, say, Windows 7 and it spoofs an IE8 user-agent header, or even runs by directly automating IE itself, how do you detect it then? Both of those scenarios are not unlikely at all.