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Layered bot defense for a public form: honeypot, Turnstile, email verification, and the pieces between

A public, unauthenticated form that writes to the database and sends email is a bot's favorite denial-of-service target. No single control is enough. The point is layering honeypot, Turnstile, rate limiting, and email verification so one layer failing doesn't sink the rest.

Jul 30, 202617 min readsecurity
A medieval castle viewed from outside its outer wall. Multiple defensive layers visible in one frame.