Iocaine poisons bots with Gergely Nagy
Josh talks to Gergely Nagy (algernon) about his tool Iocaine. Iocaine creates a maze to trap scraping bots in a world a fake pages they cannot escape. algernon tells us how Iocaine effectively traps bots by serving them endless loops of nonsensical URLs and web pages. It’s an extremely clever tool that’s designed to be completely hidden from normal users, but not hidden to the scrapers. Episode Links Gergely Iocaine algernon on Mastodon Nam-Shub of Enki Iocaine on mastodon Iocaine example site This episode is also available as a podcast, search for “Open Source Security” on your favorite podcast player. ...