On 25 September 2016 at 20:14, Alec Muffett <alec.muff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> An organisation's response to scraping seems typically the product of: > > 1) the technical resources at its disposal > 2) its ability to distinguish scraping from non-scraping traffic > 3) the benefit to the organisation of sieving-out and handling the > non-scraping traffic, rather than ignoring it all > > I would argue that Facebook was the first to launch a really large onion > site by scoring highly (HHH/HMH) in all three of these categories: big > brains, actual high-signal login credentials, and a million normal people > who want to use Facebook over Tor (especially "at need"). > > By comparison I would estimate Google as HMM (or HML) and Cloudflare as > HLL; both companies with great people (I know many of them) but with Medium > or Low abilities to sort scraping from non-scraping, and Medium or Low > impetus to do so. That's a very interesting perspective, thanks. Is there any cooperation among such major players to share such information? Correlation to form reasonably high-confidence scraping/abuse RBLs, for example? -J -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
