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0 pointstoastal4y ago0 comments

I reod some people use false slugs in the robots.txt as a honey pot of sorts. IPs that actually read the robots.txt, ignore the disallow, and still access the uri are outright banned.

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taylorfinley4y ago

Then when a flamewar breaks out you just have to get your adversary to click a link to get them IP banned.

jedberg4y ago

Ha, that would have been a really smart idea! Sadly we didn't think of that at the time. But we had other honey pot URLs.

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taylorfinley4y ago

Then when a flamewar breaks out you just have to get your adversary to click a link to get them IP banned.

jedberg4y ago

Ha, that would have been a really smart idea! Sadly we didn't think of that at the time. But we had other honey pot URLs.

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