What is a .zip bomb and how it works?
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imagine that you’re packing up for a trip, you compress all of your clothes in a small bag
you successfully zip it close, but when you arrive at your destination, you open your bag, everything comes out, a shit ton of clothes scattered on an area
zip bombs are, well, compressed files, usually just a single text file with at least 1 byte of data or more, then compressed, made duplicates, compressed, duplicate and so on until you’re left with 1 zip file that when unzipped, consumes a lot of storage space
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