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Can you expand on the timestamping method? I thought this could be easily circumvented by adding random delays to the bot requests.
by VMG 16y ago
Can you expand on the timestamping method? I thought this could be easily circumvented by adding random delays to the bot requests.
- yuvadam 16y agoYou are absolutely correct. Timestamping alone does not suffice, but it is another layer of defense which does work. Most bots do not have random delays. I'll try to look up some numbers on this.
- bsaunder 16y agoSee also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2368486 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2368486 (there are lots of comments, a couple of months ago, it would have been easy to see which ones are "interesting", now you must read them all).