Perplexity Stealth Crawlers Evade No-Crawl Directives - 2025-08-04

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00:02:16 - Perplexity Uses Stealth Crawlers to Evade No-Crawl Directives – 2025-08-04

00:11:25 - Story # 1: Insurance won’t cover $5M in City of Hamilton claims for cyberattack, citing lack of log-in security

00:18:40 - Story # 2: States Enact Safe Harbor Laws that Provide Affirmative Defenses in Data Breach Litigation

00:26:45 - Story # 3: Hackers Destroy Aeroflot’s IT Infrastructure, Causing Over 42 Flight Cancellations

00:34:18 - Story # 4: Attackers exploit link-wrapping services to steal Microsoft 365 logins

00:40:09 - Story # 5: Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons

00:42:18 - Wade’s plugin recommendation

00:44:39 - Story # 6: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

00:51:11 - Story # 7: After Backlash, ChatGPT Removes Option to Have Private Chats Indexed by Google

00:55:21 - AI 2027

01:01:01 - What’s Ralph been up to?