- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
The one-liner:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz
This is brilliant.
The one-liner:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz
This is brilliant.
Brotli gets it to 8.3K, and is supported in most browsers, so there’s a chance scrapers also support it.
Gzip encoding has been part of the HTTP protocol for a long time and every server-side HTTP library out there supports it, and phishing/scrapper bots will be done with server-side libraries, not using browser engines.
Further, judging by the guy’s example in his article he’s not using gzip with maximum compression when generating the zip bomb files: he needs to add -9 to the gzip command line to get the best compression (but it will be slower).(I tested this and it made no difference at all).