Re: Hit Throttling - Content Theft Prevention

[focus () karsites net]

Hi Nik. This might be of interest to you.

http://www.solutix.ch/cgi-bin/index.pl

It's based on a suggestion that I made to Markus for his
diploma work, via the SuSE security mailing list.

Kind Regards - Keith Roberts


> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Nik Cubrilovic wrote:
>
> > To: webappsec () securityfocus com
> > From: Nik Cubrilovic <cubrilovic () gmail com>
> > Subject: Re: Hit Throttling - Content Theft Prevention
>
> -- snip --
>
> > I have contacted a number of appliance vendors to see if they offer a
> > transparent application-layer firewall that could identify bad bots
> > and drop them, but surprisingly not one had a solution to offer. This
> > is a field that we are continuously getting more and more requests
> > about - pity that the Big Co's aren't taking up the opportunity
> > (considering that most of the companies being affected and who need to
> > protect their content would pay almost anything).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nik
> >
> > --
> > Nik Cubrilovic  -  <http://www.nik.com.au>