- Wired, Friday, December 19, 2014 12:51 PM
At least online, robots have officially taken over. Yes, “bots” -- or programs that simulate human activity in the service of their creators -- now
account for 56% of all of Website visits, Wired reports, citing data from online security services provider Incapsula. Among other purposes, “People use [bots] to
buy gear on eBay and … to snag the best [restaurant] reservations,” according to Wired. “But, increasingly, a slice of these online bots are malicious -- used to
knock websites offline, flood comment sections with spam, or scrape sites and reuse their
content without authorization.”
Read the whole story at Wired »
More bad news for those of us who own websites.
Thanks for the heads-up.