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Technology@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

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Technology@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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Sadly about the only thing that reliably helps against malicious crawlers is Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/
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  That URL is telling me “Invalid response”. Am I a bot?
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    I’m sorry you had to find out this way.
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    https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/user/known-broken-extensions
    
    If you have JShelter installed, it breaks the proof of work from anubis

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