The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Competent ones, yes. Most developers aren't competent, scraper writers even less so.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's true. Scrapping is a gold mine for the people that don't know. I worked for a place which crawls the internet and beyond (fetches some internal dumps we pay for). There is no chance a zip bomb would crash the workers as there are strict timeouts and smell tests (even if a does it will crash an ECS task at worst and we will be alerted to fix that within a short time). We were as honest as it gets though, following GDPR, honoring the robots file, no spiders or scanners allowed, only home page to extract some insights.

    I am aware of some big name EU non-software companies very interested in keeping an eye on some key things that are only possible with scraping.

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