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Right, and that's why honeypots work against many targets. Why serve them an actual file, when a cgi script or whatever can just generate output in a loop.

• andrewmcwatters 2y ago
  Someone has to front the bandwidth.
  • kazinator 2y ago
    Ah, speaking of that, of course you don't generate the fake data as fast as you can. You just trickle it out often enough for them not to time out.
  • BitPirate 2y ago
    That's why you should run a tarpit instead.