#zipbomb
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #zipbomb from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 11:07 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 11:07 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 14 public posts (spanning ~62362 hours).
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Languages: English (11) · French (2) · Italian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 5.4
Top of the latest posts
A valid HTML zip bomb, https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb by @ache The article shows how to create an HTML zip bomb for AI crawlers not respecting the `robots.txt` file. A zip bomb is a huge file (like 10Gib), that once compressed, has a
A IT-Sec Christmas / New Year again? 🤔 Is this: "Large ZIP files trigger spurious possible zip bomb errors" → https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/unzip/-/issues/3 …this again → https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbom
Ok I can confirm that gzip bombs work great! I almost crashed my PC Firefox testing my own bomb. I got inspiration from @lord 's article: https://lord.re/en/posts/139-gzip-bomb-nginx/ for the bomb and from @robin 's article https://icewind.
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