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		GTP 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I use zip bombs to protect my server ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/zipbomb && echo 'Boom!' Ok, not a real zip bomb, for that we would need a kernel module.

wfn 5 months ago | [–]

> Ok, not a real zip bomb, for that we would need a kernel module.

Or a userland fusefs program, nice funky idea actually (with configurable dynamic filenames, e.g. `mnt/10GiB_zeropattern.zip`...

Dwedit 5 months ago | [–]

That costs you a lot of bandwidth, defeating the whole point of a zip bomb.

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