Not to mention if you were malicious, the crawler would probably be inferior to: while :; curl "http://www.ycombinator.com"; done That said, there are man

Not to mention if you were malicious, the crawler would probably be inferior to: while :; curl "http://www.ycombinator.com"; done That said, there are many crawlers out there, many of them probably more sophisticated in their ability to ruin someone else's day. Unless you're releasing an exploit, malicious users probably know how to abuse the internet more than you do.