Half the AI traffic was a scanner in a costume
The busiest AI crawler on this blog nearly doubled in a month. Most of that wasn't the crawler at all, it was something hunting for .env files wearing its name.
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Cloudflare
Bringing Cloudflare in from the cold
Everything on AWS here runs on credentials that last minutes. Cloudflare I'd been clicking by hand, and bringing it in meant living with a long-lived secret and making it as small as I could.
The lock I took off
That morning I put a lock on a bucket. By teatime I'd taken it off for good, because it guarded the risk I'd already covered and locked in the ones I hadn't.
