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literally the top link when I search for his exact text "why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?" https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html Maybe travis needs more google-fu. maybe that includes using duckduckgo?
I am shocked, shocked I say.
Not for me, I have nothing but a hard time solving CAPTCHAs, ahout 50% of the time I give up after 2 tries.
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Criminal convictions in the US require a standard of proof that is "beyond a reasonable doubt" and I suspect cases like this would not pass the required mens rea test, as, in their minds at least (and probably a judge's), there was no ill intent to cause a denial of service... and trying to argue otherwise based on any technical reasoning (e.g. "most servers cannot handle this load and they somehow knew it") is IMO u…
I thought only capital crimes (murder, for example) held the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. Lesser crimes require the standard of either a "Preponderance of Evidence" or "Clear and Convincing Evidence" as burden of proof. Still, even by those lesser standards, it's hard to build a case.
Criminal cases require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Most things that can result in jail time are criminal cases. Criminal cases are almost always brought by the government, and criminal acts are considered harm to society rather than to (strictly) an individual. In the US, criminal cases are classified as "misdemeanors" or "felonies," but that language is not universal in other jurisdictions.
* or whatever site the author is talking about, his site is currently inaccessible due to the amount of people trying to load it.
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The OP author shows that the cost to scrape an Anubis site is essentially zero since it is a fairly simple PoW algorithm that the scraper can easily solve. It adds basically no compute time or cost for a crawler run out of a data center. How does that force rethinking?
The cookie will be invalidated if shared between IPs, and it's my understanding that most Anubis deployments are paired with per-IP rate limits, which should reduce the amount of overall volume by limiting how many independent requests can be made at any given time. That being said, I agree with you that there are ways around this for a dedicated adversary, and that it's unlikely to be a long-term solution as-is. My…
It won't stop the crawlers immediately, but it might lead to an overhyped and underwhelming LLM release from a big name company, and force them to reassess their crawling strategy going forward?
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The human needs to wait for their computer to solve the challenge. You are trading something dirt-cheap (CPU time) for something incredibly expensive (human latency). Case in point: > If the challenge takes, say, 250 ms on the absolute best hardware, and serving a request takes 25 ms, a normal user won't even see a difference, while a scraper will see a tenfold slowdown while scraping that website. No. A human sees a…
>No. A human sees a 10x slowdown. For the actual request, yes. For the complete experience of using the website not so much, since a human will take at least several seconds to process the information returned. >And the scraper paid one 1/1000000th of a dollar. (The scraper does not care about latency.) The point need not be to punish the client, but to throttle it. The scraper may not care about taking longer, but t…
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>The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very difficult for computers but trivial for humans Not for me, I have nothing but a hard time solving CAPTCHAs, ahout 50% of the time I give up after 2 tries.