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throwaway_fai ◴[] No.42551493[source]
What if people used a kind of reverse slow-loris attack? Meaning, AI bot connects, and your site dribbles out content very slowly, just fast enough to keep the bot from timing out and disconnecting. And of course the output should be garbage.
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1. ku1ik ◴[] No.42552379[source]
Nice idea!

Btw, such reverse slow-loris “attack” is called a tarpit. SSH tarpit example: https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh