Comment by chasd00
14 hours ago
yeah that's so hopelessly naive, maybe someone was taught that GET is read-only throughout their whole education and career. But still, all you have to do is think about it from the server side and you should realize that you can do whatever the hell you want with that byte array on the socket, the client has no say and there's no client side guarantee whatsoever. idk where this line of thought comes from, it's like thinking robots.txt has any kind of actual enforcement at all with respect to crawlers. It's meaningless and works only by convention and the good will of the crawler author.
I mean, 30 seconds after I read what the bots did I thought it was majorly overly complicated (but still might be the only way for the swarm to find shared infrastructure).
All you need to do is find a server that allows you to access its logs.
$IP1 - [date] GET /openai.php?BOT_141=Yo_dawg_post_your_answers_here_for_task_XXX1
$IP2 - [date] GET /openai.php?BOT_148=task_XXX1_answer_42
With how a lot of smaller devices work, the logs could be rotated out pretty quickly and the evidence would disappear.