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lj·rkWe could probably make significant damage to all those "Dark Net" scraper bullshit tools if we'd use the Trademark registrars, the German Handelsregister, etc. and created bullshit database entries from it, bullshit GitHub (they only care about GitHub, they don't even scan others lol) commits with some XML containing references to those names, crap websites, etc. We could even combine this with <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Tarpit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tarpit</a> and other anti-AI stuff.~ signed, a person who has to wade through thousands of bullshit alerts for generic terms.

Marcos DioneRemember this?<a href="https://en.osm.town/@mdione/113837619900677798" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.osm.town/@mdione/113837619900677798</a>Seems like someone already wrote something like that:<a href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4933-bamboozling-badly-behaving-bots/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4933-bamboozling-badly-behaving-bots/</a>BEWARE: they scream a bit, so have your finger in the mute button.EDIT: I'm making this the head of my <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FOSDEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSDEM</a> talks that I liked<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FightBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FightBack</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/TarPit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TarPit</a>

IT NewsHackaday Links: February 9, 2025 - January 9 ended up being a very expensive day for a Culver City, California man af... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/hackaday-links-february-9-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/hackaday-links-february-9-2025/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaycolumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hackadaycolumns</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/termsofservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#termsofservice</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaylinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hackadaylinks</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/northamerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#northamerica</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/superscooper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#superscooper</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/continent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#continent</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emergency</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/honeypot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#honeypot</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/amradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amradio</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geology</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/slider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slider</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#europe</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tarpit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tarpit</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/drone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drone</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/eula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eula</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fine</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bot</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tos</a>

PrivacyDigest<a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> haters build <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tarpits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tarpits</a> to trap and trick <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/scrapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scrapers</a> that ignore <a href="https://mas.to/tags/robots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#robots</a>.txt <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tarpit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tarpit</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/robotstxt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#robotstxt</a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/</a>

brettLast night I made a fake nuclear reactor control system and put it on the Internet for hackers to find. It's a script implementing the absolute minimum of the VNC protocol to very slowly send a screenshot of a SCADA interface. I'm logging any keys they try to type and mouse movements they make, and the next stage of the project is to use that data to drive a display in my living room, that'll look like an electronic cloud chamber (using e-paper) <a class="hashtag" href="https://brettiverse.com/tag/projects" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projects</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://brettiverse.com/tag/infosec" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infosec</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://brettiverse.com/tag/tarpit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tarpit</a>

brettThis is an old project, but by some miracle it's still working and I woke up this morning wanting to celebrate the things I love more. This Inkplate e-ink screen shows Conway's Game of Life, seeded from tarpits I have on the Internet. The tarpits are programs on my computer that superficially look like insecure Telnet and Remote Desktop services, but actually exist to respond super slowly and make bots scanning the Internet 'get stuck'. When a bot connects to the tarpit, the data it sends gets squished into a 5x5 grid and 'stamped' onto a Game of Life board. Data from a bot at the IP address 1.1.x.x will get stamped on the top left corner, data from a bot at 254.254.x.x will get stamped on the bottom right corner. Conway's Game of Life, a set of simple rules that govern whether cells should turn on or off, updates the display once per second. The result is that bot attacks end up appearing as distinct 'creatures', that get bigger and more angry looking over time (as their centre is updated with new data). After the attack finishes, the 'creature' eventually burns itself out. Despite that description, it's a really chill piece of art that doesn't draw too much attention but I can happily watch for a long time. Credit for the idea goes to <a class="u-url mention" href="https://infosec.exchange/@_mattata" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@_mattata</a>, I had been wanting to make a real-life version of XKCD #350 for years before seeing his Botnet Fishbowl project. <a class="hashtag" href="https://brettiverse.com/tag/projects" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projects</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://brettiverse.com/tag/inkplate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inkplate</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://brettiverse.com/tag/esp32" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#esp32</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://brettiverse.com/tag/eink" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eink</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://brettiverse.com/tag/infosec" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infosec</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://brettiverse.com/tag/tarpit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tarpit</a>

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