Comment by immibis
7 months ago
Yes.
A user has to manually unpack a zip bomb, though. They have to open the file and see "uncompressed size: 999999999999999999999999999" and still try to uncompress it, at which point it's their fault when it fills up their drive and fails. So I don't think there's any ethical dilemma there.
For some reason I was under the impression that browsers had the ability to transparently decompress certain archive formats? I may be thinking of less and gzip though