Bots get the Honey Pot--bees will do the justice

Posted May 7th, 2007 by Mgccl
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Harvesters and Comment Spam bots? Time for them to get pwned!
Akismet, Bad Behavior are doing their part, but one more recruit won't hurt.
Project Honey Pot just planted a pot in my site and waiting for bots to fly in and get screwed ...screwed well
The project let user downloads a small honey pot script and upload on your website. Then, after setting up, put a link to the script in the page, but can't be seen by normal visitors so only the evil bots will click on it and wala...
This is what happens to harvesters
This is what happens to spam bots

Blog owners who does not have PHP or other server side script support, you can sign up for a link from the project site so you don't have to host it.


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can this work on non blogs

On Aug/24/2008 01:06:17 Anonymous (not verified) says:

can this work on non blogs

Yes...

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On Aug/24/2008 02:29:22 Mgccl says:

Yes...

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