Understanding Vercel's BotID: A Reverse Engineering Analysis
By
hazebooth
Kettled twice. Extra chewy, extra trustworthy.
Summary
The article discusses the reverse engineering of Vercel's BotID, an anti-bot tool designed to protect against bots without manual intervention. It explores the importance of anti-bots in preventing cyber attacks and the author's conflicted feelings towards them.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledAnti-bots are important. They help stop credential stuffing attacks, block denial-of-service attempts, and keep bad faith scrapers from inflating hosting costs.
Most anti-bots rely on aggressive browser fingerprinting, collecting a plethora of device signals.
If you’re running a business on the internet these days, it’s hard to survive without some kind of bot protection in place.
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