On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 12:05:28PM +0000, g4sra via Dng wrote:
>
> > ClaudeBot is currently doing something really stupid. It somehow has
> > come to the conclusion that my Devuan mirror mirrors EVERYTHING!
>
> Welcome to the AI future.
> anthropic.com have been having bad press since last year and don't appear to care how much upset they cause.
>
> Using Agent Headers or robots.txt is pointless as the aggressor cannot
> be trusted to be honest. I am currently looking for some form of
> proactive\reactive dynamic firewall blocking for this type of
> 'attack'. I am also investigating if I can tarpit (without causing
> myself significant overhead) to actually slow down probes onto my
> network by causing heightened resource usage at the aggressor's end.
>
> If you know of anything that may help please give me a head-up.

LWN recently had a writeup on this problem: https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/
Many sites started using https://anubis.techaro.lol/ to repent the bots.

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