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Comment by nostoc

8 years ago

He does not base the attack on IP address. He detects vulnerability scanner and send them the crafted content.

You ask for something a vulnerability scanner would ask for? You get a gzip bomb.

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shakna  8 years ago

> Awesome! My production implementation of the bomb also looks at 404's and 403's per IP and if there are too many of those it will send the bomb. [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/6lfl6p/i_have_created_...

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