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banana_giraffe

Yep, I run a barely popular static site, but people do love trying all the attacks on it:

https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/85c947a5d37cb01f72f82318d0...

This is two weeks of 404s

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Instead of 404, possibly redirect them to an ad page and retire early? Half joking...

Naw, advertisers are pretty good at detecting bots. Your CPM will quickly drop to 0.

Better redirect to a multi GB Linux ISO download.

This gives me an idea. Maybe redirect to some old big corp website -- HP, Oracle, IBM? -- where the page they're being redirected to also redirects several times?

Could you somehow stream an infinite stream? Like taping a circle of black paper together in a fax machine and faxing a spammer.

have you thought about serving them eicar?

I have served up various memes and annoying graphics on the off chance someone will investigate what they got.

Though, I assume if their scanner doesn't see the response it wants, it just automatically moves on.

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