How I Fingerprint My Own API to Catch Scrapers
Trap streets, phantom records, and the watermarking tricks that catch scrapers
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Your API Is Leaking Source Fingerprints. Here's How to Stop It.
Why transformed data still reveals where it came from
I Prompt Injected My Own GitHub README. Then I Built a Honeypot.
How a practical joke turned into an LLM honeypot, two free security tools, and a canary endpoint that fingerprints AI scrapers.
Zero Public Ports: How I Secured my B2B API Against 10k Scraper Requests
I built security for "no one's looking." The open web is "everyone's looking." This is the post mortem of closing that gap. The thesis: identity + perimeter shift + observability beats reactive blocking.
