Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate) (opens in new tab)

(blog.cloudflare.com)

2 pointssuixo6y ago3 comments

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This is similar to hashcash proof of work concepts that inspired Bitcoin. Use proof of work to make not traffic expensive, to create a financial disincentive for running the bot.

I'm curious to see if Tor users get impacted by this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

robbya6y ago

Is there something better than a CPU intensive task? They obviously are worried about the power consumption.

I'm thinking a memory and time intensive task that is minimally CPU intensive would be better.

pnako6y ago

Grandma's DSL router is about to get much warmer.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

3 comments

robbya6y ago

This is similar to hashcash proof of work concepts that inspired Bitcoin. Use proof of work to make not traffic expensive, to create a financial disincentive for running the bot.

I'm curious to see if Tor users get impacted by this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

robbya6y ago

Is there something better than a CPU intensive task? They obviously are worried about the power consumption.

I'm thinking a memory and time intensive task that is minimally CPU intensive would be better.

pnako6y ago

Grandma's DSL router is about to get much warmer.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse