Comment by gblargg
7 months ago
So the trick is to disguise it as an accident. Have the zip bomb look like a real HTML file at the beginning, then have zeroes after that, like it got corrupted.
7 months ago
So the trick is to disguise it as an accident. Have the zip bomb look like a real HTML file at the beginning, then have zeroes after that, like it got corrupted.
well, what does "damage" mean in that law? filling the disk isn't destructive. filling RAM isn't destructive. there's nothing in a zip-bomb approach that is destructive; a reboot or an `rm` (at most) undoes it all. I would say that this doesn't qualify as a destructive operation in any way.
IANAL