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A “zip bomb” can be merely a very efficiently compressed file. That sound like a crime to you?
by sk5t 6y ago
A “zip bomb” can be merely a very efficiently compressed file. That sound like a crime to you?
- StartupTree 6y agoThe law works by judging intent, not by "actualllly technically i am correct here".
- gruez 6y agoAnd how would you prove intent? It might be easy to prove if it's an usb drive with only a zip bomb. But what if it's on a 8TB external hard drive, with a bunch of random stuff (research papers, movies, podcasts, etc), placed inside a folder called "DoS examples" with a bunch of other malformed files as well?
- coldtea 6y ago>And how would you prove intent? They don't have to prove it, in the sense that you prove a mathematical proof. They just need to agree you had that intent.
- jeffe 6y agoIsn't the American legal system the one where that kind of argument actually has weight? Why so many cases are thrown out on technicalities and litigation costs are so high.
- rocqua 6y agoA kitchen knife is just a tool for cutting meat, does that sound like a crime to you? Depends very much on what is being cut, in what context, and why. Cutting chicken fillets in a kitchen to cook dinner? No. Cutting a human on the street whilst screaming 'die you bitch' probably yes. Its not about the tool, its about how you use it.
- sk5t 6y agoBecause we're talking here about a file that one might possess within one's personal effects and papers--a file, on a PC, with no desire whatsoever to share it with anyone--the comparison to waving a knife around while screaming threats, or forcing a malicious file into a server, seems more than a little thin. Where is the motive? Where is the criminal frame of mind? Remember, piping /dev/zero to a compression routine for a few seconds, out of curiosity or testing a shell script or whatever, could create a file that might throw a wrench into poorly-built works.