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Technology@lemmy.world · 12 days ago

I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

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Technology@lemmy.world · 12 days ago

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

This is brilliant.

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Interesting. I wonder how long it takes until most bots adapt to this type of “reverse DoS”.
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  Then we’ll just be more clever as well. It’s an arms race after all.

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