August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem
August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem …but first, a quick digression about what likely started it. Our stance on AI agents isn’t much of a secret. I recently added a new feature to The Cutting Room Floor: If you visit the site with a “Claude-code” user agent… it adds you to a Claude user ban list.
- ▪August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem …but first, a quick digression about what likely started it.
- ▪Our stance on AI agents isn’t much of a secret.
- ▪I recently added a new feature to The Cutting Room Floor: If you visit the site with a “Claude-code” user agent… it adds you to a Claude user ban list.
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| Original publisher | Xkeeper |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-floor/tcrf-2026-ddos-postmortem/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:46:22 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T20:35:26.631Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T20:35:26.631Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem …but first, a quick digression about what likely started it. Our stance on AI agents isn’t much of a secret. I recently added a new feature to The Cutting Room Floor: If you visit the site with a “Claude-code” user agent… it adds you to a Claude user ban list. Then, if you try and visit the site later, without Claude — maybe because you wanted to investigate the “prompt injection” page it received — you’re greeted with a special error page telling you to get out, featuring a pixelated Claude logo: Hello old friend A Twitter bluecheck ran into this, evaded the ban, then proceeded to get increasingly mad at the fact he got banned.
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