Is this blog now popular enough to be plagiarized from?
I saw this while looking through my logs today:
54.236.205.11 - - [27/Sep/2020:12:56:20 +0000] "HEAD /tag/logic.html HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Blackboard Safeassign" "54.236.205.11" response-time=0.001
54.236.205.11 - - [27/Sep/2020:12:56:20 +0000] "GET /tag/cpu.html HTTP/1.1" 200 8843 "-" "Blackboard Safeassign" "54.236.205.11" response-time=0.002
54.236.205.11 - - [27/Sep/2020:12:56:20 +0000] "GET /tag/logic.html HTTP/1.1" 200 8842 "-" "Blackboard Safeassign" "54.236.205.11" response-time=0.002
54.236.205.11 - - [27/Sep/2020:12:56:20 +0000] "HEAD /tag/hardware-architecture.html HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Blackboard Safeassign" "54.236.205.11" response-time=0.001
54.236.205.11 - - [27/Sep/2020:12:56:24 +0000] "HEAD /tag/transistors.html HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Blackboard Safeassign" "54.236.205.11" response-time=0.001
54.236.205.11 - - [27/Sep/2020:12:56:24 +0000] "HEAD /tag/microcode.html HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Blackboard Safeassign" "54.236.205.11" response-time=0.001
54.236.205.11 - - [27/Sep/2020:12:56:24 +0000] "GET /tag/transistors.html HTTP/1.1" 200 8844 "-" "Blackboard Safeassign" "54.236.205.11" response-time=0.002
54.236.205.11 - - [27/Sep/2020:12:56:24 +0000] "GET /tag/microcode.html HTTP/1.1" 200 8845 "-" "Blackboard Safeassign" "54.236.205.11" response-time=0.003
"Blackboard Safeassign" is a plagiarism detector so I guess that means that this blog has finally made it to the big league lol.
The crawler didn't seem to hit any of the actual pages containing code that people might copy from though. Maybe next time? At least they were nice enough to put in some info about their user agent, also good that I'm nice enough not to preferentially serve different content to them. But really I'm just lazy and this site is statically generated such that I can pay minimal hosting costs and have fewer operational hassles.
Also speaking of plagiarism have a read of "The Shadow Scholar" by Dave Tomar if you haven't already, the practice is not only common these days but a whole industry has now popped up both cheating and fighting against cheating. Perhaps if education wasn't an industrialized process designed to churn out credential holders then industrialized plagiarism wouldn't be as much of a problem.