Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

Re:Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless pois... by cdrini on Sunday March 29, 2026 @01:08PM (#47565003)

The first is incorrect, these scrapers are usually distributed across many IPs, in my experience. I usually refer to them as "disturbed, non-identifying crawlers (DNCs)" when I want to be maximally explicit. (The worst I've seen is some crawler/botnet making exactly one request per IP -_-)

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Re:Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless pois... by aduwah on Sunday March 29, 2026 @01:36PM (#47565286)

I think the second is incorrect too. DDoS is a DDoS no matter what the intent is.

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Re:Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless pois... by cdrini on Sunday March 29, 2026 @04:53PM (#47567196)

I think one could argue that one. Is a DDoS a symptom? In which case the intent is irrelevant. Or is a DDoS an attack/crime? In which case it is. We kind of use it to mean both. But I think it's generally the latter. Wikipedia describes it as a "cyberattack", so actually I think intent is relevant to our (society's) current definition.

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Re:Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless pois... by ethmarks on Sunday March 29, 2026 @06:39PM (#47568175)

The semantics that make sense to me is that "DDoS" describes the symptom/effect irrespective of intent, and "DDoS attack" describes the malicious crime. But the terms are frequently used interchangeably.

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