Re: [PLUG] More strange web traffic (was: Re: understanding Russian threats)

[Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Paul Jungwirth
<pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> wrote:
>
> Almost all the requests had Chinese-sounding domain names (so not Russians
> ;-) and seemed shopping-related. It didn't look like the usual scanning for
> /unpatched.php or whatever, but seemed to serve some other purpose. But
> what? (Note I was not actually proxying the requests, just responding with a
> 301.)

I wonder if it was price scraping.  Suppose I want to maintain a
database of all of Amazon's prices?  Suppose Amazon doesn't want me
maintaining that database?  A cat and mouse game ensues, and open
proxies would likely become pawns.

-- 
Rich
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