Welcome to The MIRE/C3
A tarpit for the web's uninvited guests. Fabricated WordPress installs, admin panels and "internal" dashboards are served to the scanners that would otherwise rattle real doors — slowly, expensively, and under full logging.
MIRE/Inception — The First 24 Days
Dec 8–31, 2025: before domains had names, before user agents were logged, and before the delay engine could hold anyone past nine seconds.
MIRE/Evolution — Six Months of Growing Up
Jan–Jun 2026: intent-aware logging, holds stretching past a hundred seconds, and the fortnight two bots split 195 GB of fake databases before both got a 205-byte reply.
Ninety Days In The Maze
A /24 that only hunts secrets, a scraper that ate a week in one gulp, and two attacker toolkits that never once share an address.
Ninety-One Days In The Maze
Two self-identifying bots drank 95% of the bandwidth, a scraper wore 795 disguises across four subnets, and half of everyone knocked exactly once.
What Claude Found
Claude Code analysed ten months of logs, then fact-checked itself. One crawler had been wandering the corridors for 122 days.