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I always referred to this practice as “tarpitting”, I was surprised to see nobody else here does!
by squizzeak 7y ago
I always referred to this practice as “tarpitting”, I was surprised to see nobody else here does!
- manicdee 7y ago“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.