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I really enjoyed the writing style in this article. And the bot progression from "alter user agent" to "change IP addresses" to providers having to ban whole s
by jdnier 1mo ago
I really enjoyed the writing style in this article.
And the bot progression from "alter user agent" to "change IP addresses" to providers having to ban whole subnets, whole ASNs, and realizing "proxy SDK monetization" is a thing mirrors threat actor progression from the time before LLMs.
- TZubiri 1mo agoIt goes beyond mirrors, it's just something criminals have been doing since forever, to abuse all websites.
- atq2119 1mo agoIt feels like this progression of increasingly drastic measures to circumvent the protections of a computer system ought to be enough to establish criminal intent and get some of the people running those crawlers into prison.
- inigyou 1mo agoIt does. It's literally a felony but for some reason not a single person has pressed charges.
- NavinF 1mo agoturns out the overlap between "people who can't configure their webserver to serve at wire speed" and "people who can get law enforcement to take them seriously" is the empty set
- emsign 1mo agoIt's because the companies doing this bought the current government.
- inigyou 1mo agoThere is no evidence for who's doing this and nobody has made any effort to obtain any.
- vermilingua 1mo agoSorry, no evidence for who's running... GPTBot and ClaudeBot?
- inigyou 1mo agoNo evidence for who's running the global ddos scraper network.