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There is a good chance that a determined and skilled haxxor will run rings around both of us I agree. I do silly things like this to get rid of the bot noise

There is a good chance that a determined and skilled haxxor will run rings around both of us I agree. I do silly things like this to get rid of the bot noise and to keep snooping bots like Discord/Steam off my files. I doubt any corporation would mimic my practices. Most of my hobby sites these days are static pre-compressed content and block anything other than HEAD and GET requests that match a regex patterns. All of that said I think that you are right. A targeted attack of my server providers could net console access and I would be very surprised if that console access didn't already provide unfettered access to assorted agencies in the name of lawful intercept. At least that was the case when I was in the wireless industry.

gerdesj 4y ago
"I do silly things like this" I know what you mean but it really isn't silly, it is socially responsible. You are already doing the right thing but thought of it as a hobby but it really isn't. The thing about the internet is that you can live in the UK or the US or wherever and have someone from the Russian Federation or the PRC off of China or a NORK or simply a common criminal from anywhere rock up and knock on your website's door and try to behave like a parasite. Think of these little darlings as parasites and it becomes obvious why you should put some effort in to keeping the buggers out.