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by acosmism 330 days ago
if you are hosting a house party that invites the entire world robots.txt is a neon sign to guide guests to where the beers are, who's cooking what kind of burgers and on what grill; rules of the house etc - you'll still have to secure your gold chains and laptop in a safe somewhere or decide to even keep them in the same house yourself
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Gold chains etc should be behind authentication. Robots txt is more like a warning sign that says the hedgemaze in the garden goes on forever, so probably stay out of it.
A brilliant analogy. Robots doesn't provide access controls. Authentication and authorization do.