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		trollied on Oct 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Against /tmp I serve 1Gb of /dev/null to every scraper that tries known CVE endpoints. Fuck 'em.

anyfoo on Oct 22, 2024 [–]

How much is 1 GB*0 bytes? Better serve 1GB of /dev/zero instead! (Or even better, /dev/urandom, because zeroes compress very well and are easy to spot.)

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