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by gnyman 944 days ago
Yeah, so much noise. I enjoy screwing around with them on my free time, "imposing cost" by giving back unexpected things. I don't know if it actually does something, but I bet returning either a gzip-bomb or a 5 MiB really obscure (but valid) HTML file will crash quite a few scanners.

https://nitter.net/gnyman/status/1181652421841436672

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Are you familiar with OpenBSD tarpitting?
Not specifically openBSD but the concept yes, I've played with it also

https://nyman.re/super-simple-ssh-tarpit/