Digital Cat-and-Mouse: Strategies to Outsmart Scrapers, Phishers, and Thieves
summary
A property site blocks Dutch scraper IPs then seeds project yellow brick road fake listings (10 Downing Street in Dublin, Willy Wonka in Cork) and forces a well funded rival to abandon scraping after a week or two, but a test-on-prod bug briefly poisons production. Other tactics include watermarking images that make up 60–65% of payload, signed URLs validated in nginx Lua, honeypots that expose compromised agent accounts, and using Cloudflare Labyrinth to waste AI bots.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:54Property scraper threat
- 10:12Technical disaster fixes
- 13:23Tarpitting scrapers
- 16:50Hotlinking protection
- 20:18Property scam protection
- 25:32Fishing attacks and honeypot defenses
- 29:08Black Sunday hack
- 35:44Key takeaways
- 37:06Q&A
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