Article note: Also delightful and hacky: zip bombs to punish aggressive web scrapers.
I feel like merging this technique with some of the LLM crawler traps would make for a lot of fun.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.