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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

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The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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Is it immune to zip bombs?
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  All I know is it compresses memory. The mechanism mentioned here for ZIP bombs to crash bots is to fill up memory fast with repeating zeroes.
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    5•2 months ago
    I thought it was to fill all available storage. Maybe it’s both?

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