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Podcast: Adventures in DevOps
Episode: Project Yellow Brick Road: Creative, Practical, and Unconventional Engineering
Description: Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Rootly AI - https://dev0ps.fyi/rootlyai                  Paul Conroy, CTO at Square1, joins the show to prove that the best defense against malicious bots isn't always a firewall—sometimes, it’s creative data poisoning. Paul recounts a legendary story from the Irish property market where a well-funded competitor attempted to solve their "chicken and egg" problem by scraping his company's listings. Instead of waiting years for lawyers, Paul’s team fed the scrapers "Project Yellow Brick Road": fake listings that placed the British Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street in Dublin and the White House in County Cork...