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Fun with gzip bombs and email clients
Mike Cardwell's Tech Blog. Security, privacy, and technology
Add it your website document root and configure Nginx to serve it up as an image, with gzip Content-Encoding: Fastmail webmail’s proxies downloaded the full 10MB and proceeded to send me 385MB of data before giving up. In less than a minute after clicking “Load remote content”, Evolution Mail had added 100GB of data to my laptops disk.
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