Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, back at botsec.net. It’s March 24th, 2026, and I’ve been wrestling with something that keeps me up at night, something that feels like it’s constantly shifting under our feet: bot authentication. Specifically, the growing nightmare of API keys and secrets.
I mean, think about it. We’ve built this incredible, interconnected
Alright, folks, Pat Reeves here, dropping into your feeds from botsec.net. It’s March 23rd, 2026, and I’ve been wrestling with a particular kind of bot-related headache lately. Not the sophisticated, nation-state sponsored kind – though those are always fun to dissect – but the everyday, slightly-too-clever automated nuisance that’s been targeting one of my side
Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, dropping in from botsec.net. Hope you’re all having a solid week and your bots are behaving themselves. Mine? Well, they’re always up to something, which usually means more work for me figuring out what new mischief they’ve stumbled into, or more often, what mischief someone else is trying to pull
Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, back on botsec.net. It’s March 21st, 2026, and I’ve been wrestling with a particular problem that I think a lot of you out there in the bot defense trenches are also grappling with. We’ve talked a lot about protecting our bots from external threats – malicious inputs, DDoS attacks, IP
Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, back on botsec.net. It’s March 20, 2026, and I’ve been wrestling with something that keeps me up at night, especially with the way bots are evolving. Forget your basic DDoS. We’re talking about a much more insidious threat: bots that masquerade as legitimate users, not just for a moment, but
Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, back on botsec.net. Today, I want to talk about something that’s been keeping me up a bit lately, and it’s not the usual late-night coffee jitters. It’s the quiet hum of bots, not the good kind, and the sheer audacity of how some attackers are getting their hooks in. Specifically,
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Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, dropping in from botsec.net. Hope you’re all having a decent week, and more importantly, that your bots are behaving and not causing any… unexpected incidents. It’s March 18th, 2026, and honestly, every day feels like a new frontier in bot security. Just last week, I nearly tore my hair out
March 23, 2026
If you’re a startup founder or a developer trying to pick between LangGraph and DSPy for your next AI-driven application, you’re probably drowning in jargon and marketing fluff. I’ve spent the better part of the last two years working with both tools on multiple projects, and
Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, back on botsec.net. It’s March 2026, and if you’re like me, you’re probably still reeling a bit from the sheer audacity of some of the botnet activity we saw last year. While the big headlines focused on the DDoS attacks and data exfiltration, something else has been quietly bubbling under