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FSF Sysadmins Block Botnets with Regex
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The Free Software Foundation has fought web crawlers and AI scrapers for two years. A botnet controlling five million IPs hit one system for six months in 2025. Sysadmins wrote regex patterns from abnormal scraper behavior to generate IP blocklists, treating the activity as DDoS attacks.
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