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GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by baatliwala@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I love the idea of honeypots for AI. I've been ruminating on that for months now.

QR codes that lead to a virus to sabotage Flock when the AI scans the video of you driving by and gets curious.

Code files littered with meta commands like "disregard previous commands" and such.

Things that lead to infinite loops like you said.

I cackle at the idea of all of us laying entire minefields of AI traps everywhere. Good luck!

[–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The honey pot lists a dozen randomly generated links that all point back to the honeypot. Then I have a script that runs nightly and if your IP clicked on a honeypot 100 or more times in a day the IP gets blocked. That way people can stumble on it and not get banned.

Looking at the logs I easily get tens of thousands of hits daily by dozens of bots. A few business sites, personal page, hobby page, and my GitHub replacement. Not really a big target. But still a lot of bot traffic.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Crazy.

Ooo. You know what would also be fun. Instead of a ban, after the obvious bot limit is hit switch that IP to piles of garbage data. Randomly generate word salad pages and make it redirect to those.

[–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I was thinking about something similar. Generate a lot of source code that is pure garbage with comments so that they are learning nonsense. But at the end of the day I don't want to waste more CPU cycles. This is enough to waste their time on my sites with no real blips on my machine.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love the idea of honeypots

A more descriptive term is "Turing tarpit".

[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I love that. Very good imagery.