[TUHS] TUHS: Maintenance, Succession and Funding

[Vicente Collares via TUHS]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:20:04 -0400
Kenneth Goodwin via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> [...] Give them more data than they expect, tie up their resources
> in every way possible. A non lethal counter offensive.
> 
> Basically a honeypot server setup to deal with these extreme situations if
> no reasonable compromise can be had.

I haven't deployed it, but there's a piece of software called iocaine
[1] with a slightly more aggressive approach, one that feeds scrapers
nonsense to not only tie up their resources, but also "confuse" the AI
models being trained. Here's a recent article [2] from LWN.net on it
which might be of interest.

There's also Anubis [3], which tells whether an incoming request is from
a human. You might have seen it protecting various sites, especially
ones serving dynamic content, such as Git web interfaces or mailing list
archives. Here's an article [4] (also from LWN.net) about it.

Warren, TUHS team, have you considered deploying this type of software
to protect your resources on the web?

Hope this information helps someone. We don't have to take the abuse
from badly-behaved bots lying down.

Cheers, Vicente.

[1] https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/1056953/
[3] https://anubis.techaro.lol/
[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/1028558/