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I use zip bombs to protect my server
The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo
At my old employer, a bot discovered a wordpress vulnerability and inserted a malicious script into our server. The Internet being slow and information being dense, the idea was to compress data as small as possible before transmitting it through the wire. When a browser makes a web request, it includes the headers that signals the target server that it can support compression.
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