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Rise of the Robots

by Harry Fuecks

Quick factual / historical note regarding Anonymizing RFI Attacks Through Google which Stefan and Ilia both referenced today.

As far as I know the notion of “programming” legitimate 3rd-party web spiders to attack other sites was first raised back in 2001 by Michal Zalewski (also wikipedia) in Against the System: Rise of the Robots.

Not that I’m hunting hacker-cred - ran into it via his book Silence on the Wire (which is a great read BTW - ever thought about how those Javascript key press events uniquely identify you?).

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  1. HarryF Says:
    November 26th, 2006 at 7:19 am

    What is this post about ?

    Just a follow up on these (mentioned in the first paragraph)

    http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/746
    http://blog.php-security.org/archives/49-Google-Request-Forgeries.html
    http://ilia.ws/archives/144-Search-Engine-Hacking-more.html

     
  2. lukemeister Says:
    November 28th, 2006 at 8:00 am

    In general, the idea of Robots runnin around out there doin their own thing is kinda freaky, especially when they are commanded by humans. I’d rather run into a bear in the woods than a robot.

     

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Harry has been working in corporate IT since 1994, with everything from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Outside of office hours he runs phpPatterns: a site dedicated to software design with PHP that aims to raise standards of PHP development. He also maintains Dynamically Typed: SitePoint's PHP blog.

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