Full title: I hid a link on my website that only bots can see and told them not to follow it. They broke the rules and in 4 days they went 124,414 levels deep into an endless maze. One bot opened 782,580 doors. I thought this was super interesting, this is how the internet is these days. Thought I’d share.

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[–] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I wonder if it's possible to trap bots like this and use them to mine crypto.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    It's not. The bot just gets a copy of the website, looks for links, and then sends a request to the server to get those subdomains. Highly unlikely that there is a vulnerability that let's you execute arbitrary code, which would be what you'd need to mine crypto.

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