Emacs NSA bait
Emacs NSA bait
Posted Feb 15, 2026 5:17 UTC (Sun) by geuder (subscriber, #62854)In reply to: A bit of a misconception: iocaine can easily be used to block bots by rsidd
Parent article: Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine
Way back?
I noticed this around 1984/85 when using emacs at university.
As a European, Internet did not exist, NSA completely unheard of, I ruled out that threat as the weirdest conspiracy ever.
Well, it took decades to understand how wrong I was and how right Stallman or whoever put it there was.
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