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Re:I Use Zip Bombs to Protect My Server by david422 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @08:30PM (#43839784)
> He found out later (after a defrag) that the "compressor" was just hiding data in unused disk sectors and storing references to them

So you could access the files until you wrote more data to disk?

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Re:I Use Zip Bombs to Protect My Server by thehappypm on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:08PM (#43840858)
Strange to think that is approach would actually work pretty damn well for most people because most people aren’t using therefore hard drive space
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