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 >.>

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] RonSijm 2 points 5 months ago

Like feathering somebody after tar pitting. I dont know what that would’ve meant. Maybe servers ridiculing an attacker or something

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

First time I hear that term, interesting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You should look into it. Network tarpitting has an interesting history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)