> Zip bombs were designed to DOS companies... Maybe today - but back in the day, Zip bombs were done as pranks on users of BBSs; upload one named something int

> Zip bombs were designed to DOS companies... Maybe today - but back in the day, Zip bombs were done as pranks on users of BBSs; upload one named something intriguing, and the hapless user would download it and unzip it to their tiny (then) hard drive, and a file that was supposed to 4 MB blows up into several hundred MB to gigs, filling their drive if they weren't paying attention. > The mitigation is easy though. We kept track of the compression ratio as we were unpacking the archives and tossed out anything where it got too large. No legitimate content compresses 1000:1 Interesting and neat solution!