#zipbombs — Public Fediverse posts

Tom’s Hardware: Software dev fortifies his blog with ‘zip bombs’ — attacking bots meet their end with explosive data package. “Zip bombs are tiny, compressed archives that hide a massive file size. An egregious example of this type of sneaky file is this 46MB archive that turns into a massive 4.5 petabyte file, overwhelming the resources of most computers. These are considered to be […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/toms-hardware-software-dev-fortifies-his-blog-with-zip-bombs-attacking-bots-meet-their-end-with-explosive-data-package/

Another tool for our arsenal of protections against adversarial bots:

https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

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