Do IPs have personality?
There's been quite a lot on the news recently about AI agents (or robots) attacking websites. Some years ago our office received about 1.5 million attacks over a weekend. For context, we were a very small NGO and we repelled the attackers. A banking services company across the road wasn't so lucky and it cost them tens of thousands of Euros. Another occasion some years back one of our servers was attacked, enough that it started to overheat! We don't enjoy attacks or indeed over zealous crawlers, so we developed a system called Pynblok . Pynblok is a South African work mean 'pain block'. The aim is to block the pain of attacks and defend our servers. And, no, we're not some big corporation but a very small non-profit. Nevertheless we still get frequent attacks and scans, sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands per day. One thing to remember though is no system is impenetrable. We know from recent history even the Department of Defence in the USA was able to b...