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No serving shit data costs bandwidth and possibly compute time. Blocking IPS is much cheaper for the blocker.
by throwawayffffas 1y ago
No serving shit data costs bandwidth and possibly compute time.
Blocking IPS is much cheaper for the blocker.
- fuckaj 1y agoZip bomb?
- aspenmayer 1y agoDoesn’t that tie up a socket on the server similarly to how a keepalive would on the bot user end?
- recursive 1y agoI don't think so. The payload size of the bytes on the wire is small. This premise is all dependent on the .zip being crawled synchronously by the same thread/job making the request.
- aspenmayer 1y agoWhat if bots catch on to zip bombs, and just download them really slowly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_p...
- throwawayffffas 1y agoTheir objective is not to DDOS websites, if they catch on, they will download it fast and then discard it.