Pauline has lockout;
June 10, 2001 8:52 PM Subscribe
Pauline has lockout; attack milena, xiang until duffer done getlost after belmar merinof not isabelle, tunasand ginaster bliss get stuf.
are we *all* allowed to use it? - rcb
posted by rebeccablood at 8:58 PM on June 10, 2001
posted by rebeccablood at 8:58 PM on June 10, 2001
Wpoison is another version of the same thing, installable on your very own server if you so desire. I installed a copy locally, and have enjoyed watching spambots get caught in it for hours on end.
posted by delfuego at 9:20 PM on June 10, 2001
posted by delfuego at 9:20 PM on June 10, 2001
Honeypots for spambots. Looks like nonsense to us, but looks just like a webpage to a robot. A robot collecting e-mail addresses for spammers.
posted by dhartung at 9:38 PM on June 10, 2001
posted by dhartung at 9:38 PM on June 10, 2001
gyc: it's a website that will generate lots of noise for spiders to fall into and spin their tires while they try to parse everything. Little do they know the website randomly generated specifically to confuse and ensare them.
A guy at my ISP has this: http://spiders.must.die.net/.
posted by perplexed at 9:41 PM on June 10, 2001
A guy at my ISP has this: http://spiders.must.die.net/.
posted by perplexed at 9:41 PM on June 10, 2001
So in the denoument of the Twlight Zone episode the guy realizes he's a spambot that thinks it's a person, and all around him his "reality" erodes as he gets more and more deeply enmeshed in the honeytrap. Then the evil spammer resets him, he loses his new understanding, and the whole thing starts over. It's downright Dickian. Coming soon to a theater near you.
posted by rodii at 9:45 PM on June 10, 2001
posted by rodii at 9:45 PM on June 10, 2001
Neeeeeeeeet!
posted by dong_resin at 9:49 PM on June 10, 2001
posted by dong_resin at 9:49 PM on June 10, 2001
So what is the actual goal here?
Doesn't this still cost the site owner lots of money through outgoing bandwidth charges?
posted by lagado at 11:08 PM on June 10, 2001
Doesn't this still cost the site owner lots of money through outgoing bandwidth charges?
posted by lagado at 11:08 PM on June 10, 2001
Lagado, on 10 loads of the page, I get an average size of 5170 (5169.8) bytes -- pretty small, all things considering.
One of my favorite features of Wpoison is that it also has a built-in time lag -- before it completes rendering of each page, it pauses and wastes time for a few seconds, forcing the spambot to wait for it to finish. Genius, because it both limits the damage that the bot can do to your machine (in terms of CPU cycles and bandwidth), and limits the amount that the bot can harvest.
posted by delfuego at 12:16 AM on June 11, 2001
One of my favorite features of Wpoison is that it also has a built-in time lag -- before it completes rendering of each page, it pauses and wastes time for a few seconds, forcing the spambot to wait for it to finish. Genius, because it both limits the damage that the bot can do to your machine (in terms of CPU cycles and bandwidth), and limits the amount that the bot can harvest.
posted by delfuego at 12:16 AM on June 11, 2001
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