Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate)
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Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate)
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Re: Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate)
#2This is similar to hashcash proof of work concepts that inspired Bitcoin. Use proof of work to make not traffic expensive, to create a financial disincentive for running the bot.
I'm curious to see if Tor users get impacted by this.
Re: Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate)
#3Is there something better than a CPU intensive task? They obviously are worried about the power consumption.
I'm thinking a memory and time intensive task that is minimally CPU intensive would be better.
Re: Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate)
#4Grandma's DSL router is about to get much warmer.