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Re:Ask HN: Best Way to Mess with Hackers? by aww_dang on Sunday January 29, 2023 @11:49AM (#34569915)
Set gzip encoding, respond with gigabytes of gzipped zeroes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb

There's more you can do when they actually parse documents. XML + XSLT can overflow some systems. Even just a deep html document tree can use up resources.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Way to Mess with Hackers? by LinuxBender on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:00PM (#34570038)
That's a fun one. Also 32GB favicon.ico's for the default catch-all host/IP assuming one is OK with the extra bandwidth usage.
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Re:Ask HN: Best Way to Mess with Hackers? by colanderman on Sunday January 29, 2023 @04:31PM (#34572977)
Straight XML often suffices, no XSLT needed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack
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