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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server (idiallo.com)

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The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't know as to poisoning AI, but one thing that I used to do was to redirect any suspicious bots or ones that were hitting their server too much to a simple html page with no JS or CSS or forward links. Then they used to go away.

this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025

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