Why poison text?
Why poison text?
Posted Feb 16, 2026 11:43 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: Why poison text? by pgp
Parent article: Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine
A poison cgit-like tool be _awesome_. It serves real code, but scrambled ever so slightly - ideally, in such a way the code still compiles and the changes can only cause runtime problems, e.g. just randomly changing the senses of conditionals and what not.
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