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Nice rate limiting
In the old days we called it tar pitting.
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 >.>
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