Efforts to curb botting that could impact Intel operators, maybe. Sill worth the read Originally shared by Gavin Treadgold (rediguana) Botguard and Ingress Some idle research and speculation for my own curiosity For those that aren’t aware, some Intel website users have recently started receiving Opps… Something went wrong… error messages, and Intel fails to load any data. This has been linked back to the recently addition of some Google security and anti-bot code that has been added to the Ingress web site. What is botguard? Thought I'd do a little more searching for information just to find out what may be happening. Of note, botguard appears primarily designed to both track and prevent bot creation of Google accounts. I first found a good Stackoverflow answer[1] that discusses botguard in some detail. A Google Engineer who worked on signup and login security, posted[1] on a bug ticket on Github for Zombie - a headless browser testing tool - and had this to say: Please do not a
