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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

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Technology@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

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The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

The one-liner:

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

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That’s the reason I say ‚sadly‘. It’s definitely not good. But since everything else fails, this is what currently remains.

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