▲ 564 ▼ I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server (idiallo.com) submitted 1 year ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 104 comments fedilink hide all child comments The one-liner: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz This is brilliant.
[–] UnbrokenTaco@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) Is it immune to zip bombs? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) All I know is it compresses memory. The mechanism mentioned here for ZIP bombs to crash bots is to fill up memory fast with repeating zeroes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Guidy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago I thought it was to fill all available storage. Maybe it’s both? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) All I know is it compresses memory. The mechanism mentioned here for ZIP bombs to crash bots is to fill up memory fast with repeating zeroes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Guidy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago I thought it was to fill all available storage. Maybe it’s both? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago I thought it was to fill all available storage. Maybe it’s both? permalink fedilink source parent