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EPISODE · Jan 12, 2026 · 40 MIN

Iocaine poisons bots with Gergely Nagy

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Josh talks to Gergely Nagy (algernon) about his tool Iocaine. Iocaine creates a maze to trap scraping bots in a world a fake pages they cannot escape. algernon tells us how Iocaine effectively traps bots by serving them endless loops of nonsensical URLs and web pages. It's an extremely clever tool that's designed to be completely hidden from normal users, but not hidden to the scrapers. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-01-iocaine-algernon/

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