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		ordersofmag on April 25, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor A simple reason would be if you're just using it as a proxy signal for bad bots and you want to reduce the load on your real servers and let them get rejected at the CDN level. Obvious SQL injection attempt = must be malicious bot = I don't want my servers wasting their time

chrisjj on April 26, 2025 [–]

> A simple reason would be if you're just using it as a proxy signal for bad bots

Who would be that stupid?

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