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Re:I Use Zip Bombs to Protect My Server by amelius on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @04:35AM (#43842595)
Maybe it's time for a /dev/zipbomb device.
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Re:I Use Zip Bombs to Protect My Server by GTP on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @06:52AM (#43843410)
ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/zipbomb && echo 'Boom!'

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

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Re:I Use Zip Bombs to Protect My Server by Dwedit on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @11:29AM (#43846622)
That costs you a lot of bandwidth, defeating the whole point of a zip bomb.
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Re:I Use Zip Bombs to Protect My Server by wfn on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @09:52PM (#43852909)
> 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`...

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