BrettC's latest activity
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.And to make it all the sweeter, a honeypot that does AI text poisoning. Someone's AI scraping botnet the other day went absolutely nuts... -
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BrettC replied to the thread Password protected threads [Paid].Sent you a DM regarding such. :)
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Oh this is soooooo satisfying to watch. There's a small wave of bots trying to crawl my forum again. They hit CloudFlare's rules...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.Rate limiting is excellent to deter against garbage requests. For example, this came through a little bit ago to a honeypot hostname...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.Looks like they implemented Cloudflare and some other provider today. Their forums are back to normal speeds. Just goes to show how...
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It's like swatting a swarm of midges. There needs to be some sort of deterrant.
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BrettC replied to the thread Password protected threads [Paid].Hi, any chance of extending this password protection to the XenForo Resource Manager? For example, if a user wishes to limit who can...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.In regards to Starlink it's kind of in a unique situation. Their IPv4 space is all CGNAT. Then, those IPv4 addresses within ASN 14593...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.Looks like a site that I lurk on from time to time has finally met our "AI Botnet Scraper overlords". ;)...
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Also, being able to see full size images is an incentive for visitors to sign up with an account and become "official" members that...
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Thank you that is really helpful. I think I'll have a breather now the Cloudflare rules are working and hopefully the numbers will stay...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.Feel free to DM me your servers real IP address behind the Cloudflare route. I can poke about and do some checks on my end. From...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.To be honest, and this is just my own opinion on the matter, indexer bots really don't need to "see the image", so long as the images...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.Guests are not permitted to view the non-thumbnail of attached images. I could see the attached image within posts, but poking the image...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.Just checked your forum, guest access throws the generic XenForo 403 error with "You must be logged-in to do that." I went ahead and...
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