Offensive Internet Posture

A sysadmin shares a collection of adversarial techniques deployed on a personal VPS to frustrate internet bots, scrapers, and AI crawlers. Tactics include a fake WordPress login with deliberate delays, running endlessh on port 22, returning fake phpinfo output, sending AI crawlers to an infinite fake website, a scraper junkyard with 2 million fake pages, a TFTP honeypot, a contact form that wastes spammers' time, and prompt injection attempts via page footers. The author argues that if even 10% of internet-connected machines adopted such offensive postures, it would make bot operations economically unviable.

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