Tell me in the old days there were other things that could happen. Like feathering somebody after tar pitting. I dont know what that would’ve meant. Maybe servers ridiculing an attacker or something.
Tar pitting sounds way more fun than rate limiting >.>
Tell me in the old days there were other things that could happen. Like feathering somebody after tar pitting. I dont know what that would’ve meant. Maybe servers ridiculing an attacker or something.
Tar pitting sounds way more fun than rate limiting >.>
I think it’s supposed to evoke an image of an animal getting trapped in a tarpit.
IIRC, originally it was adding a delay on SMTP connections to keep spammers busy.
https://verifalia.com/help/email-validations/what-is-smtp-tarpitting
Could be a feature where servers would add your IP to a list, and send it to the clients (like a list somewhere in case of a website)
Then clients would start sending random metasploit-esk requests to those IPS