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How I Fingerprint My Own API to Catch Scrapers

4d ago · 12 min read · TL;DR: Once you've stripped fingerprints from your data sources (Part 7), flip the script. Add your own watermarks so you can trace leaks back to specific customers. Coordinate jitter, price bucket sk

Your API Is Leaking Source Fingerprints. Here's How to Stop It.

Mar 24 · 8 min read · TL;DR: Your API responses contain fingerprints from your data sources. Your six decimal coordinates, ZIP+4 formats, and exact price values give away where you got your data from, even after you transf

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I Prompt Injected My Own GitHub README. Then I Built a Honeypot.

Mar 17 · 22 min read · TL;DR: Invisible Unicode characters are the new delivery mechanism for prompt injection. If your LLM agent has tool access and reads untrusted text, you’ve essentially handed the steering wheel to who

How I'm Building a Content Factory That Catches Its Own AI Slop

Mar 11 · 14 min read · This is a live account of building that system, iteration 1 shipped in January, iteration 2 starts end of March. Some of it works. Some of it doesn't. Here's all of it. I built a programmatic SEO pipe

Zero Public Ports: How I Secured my B2B API Against 10k Scraper Requests

Mar 3 · 23 min read · TL;DR: Profile traffic first, then move your perimeter to the edge. I added request logging with traffic source tagging, migrated to DB backed API keys with tiered responses, enforced monthly quotas a