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steve on July 21, 2007 | parent | context | favorite | on: What if Facebook loses my data?

From my work with web web bots, I've seen that it's really so easy to make a spider that they can't positively identify as such.

If you guys really wanted this then I guess I could show you how...

clueless on July 21, 2007 [–]

well why not... Also I guess the one way to stay safe is to somehow make it operate slow so for example it wouldn't aggregate 2000 pages in 5 seconds.

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