I'm reminded of a story about trolls back in the bbs/early internet days creating zip files of several gigs worth of zeroes or other trivially compressible data

I'm reminded of a story about trolls back in the bbs/early internet days creating zip files of several gigs worth of zeroes or other trivially compressible data. They could then upload a very small payload, and DoS the server through filling it's disk when it tried to decompress it all (when disks were measured in 10s of MB, if you were rich). Pretty much the opposite of this trick.