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   Ben Tasker (ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 06:37:42 JST Ben Tasker

   New #blog: Autodetecting and Announcing #Mastodon Scrapers and Crawlers

   There've been quite a few #fedisearch issues recently, but the common thread is that there's usually a gap in reporting - they're often live for weeks before people are made aware.

   It's not just people's pet projects either, there are other #scrapers active, quietly consuming posts

   So, I built a bot to detect and out them so that fedi admins can block as necessary

   https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/security/autodetecting-and-outing-mastodon-scrapers-with-scrapersnitchbot.html

   #infosec #security