Re:Defending a website with Zip bombs
by dveeden2 on Thursday July 06, 2017 @01:41AM
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Directly serving /dev/zero or /dev/urandom also gives interesting results. (Be aware of bandwidth costs)
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Oh this seems quite an interesting experiment. Curious though if this defence poses no additional risks (beside bandwidth) on the server. I mean, is there any significant chance that the random data could cause a glitch on the server implementation?