I visited and got the 401 but that doesn't mean whatever triggered it isn't automated.
The reasonable assumption to make when something changes that it had nothing to do with me. Because 99.99999% of the time, it didn't.
I visited and got the 401 but that doesn't mean whatever triggered it isn't automated.
The reasonable assumption to make when something changes that it had nothing to do with me. Because 99.99999% of the time, it didn't.
I dunno, if they got ID #15, and the site shut down immediately after (for everyone), it doesn’t seem like a crazy stretch.
Like, if a page gets hundreds of thousands of visitors, then your assumption is reasonable. For a page that might get dozens of visitors over its lifetime, it’s a much less certain assumption
It's unlikely in my opinion as someone that maintains a lot of websites, because it's long odds that I'm even at my desk at any given time, let alone monitoring and panicking over what visitors are clicking on.
Is it possible that it happened that way? Sure. But it's more likely that it didn't.
Do you run any honeypots? You realise the point of a honeypot is, unlike a normal website, to monitor exactly what visitors are clicking on so the trapper can react?
They were supposed to shut down after #12 but they got busy, then had to take that day off to get the kids to the doctor and it fell to the wayside. Eventually, the notification for #15 arrived and the dev panicked that it should have gone down weeks ago.