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597 points classichasclass | 2 comments | 25 Aug 25 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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firefoxd ◴[25 Aug 25 06:02 UTC] No.45010698[source]▶

Since I posted an article here about using zip bombs [0], I'm flooded with bots. I'm constantly monitoring and tweaking my abuse detector, but this particular bot mentioned in the article seemed to be pointing to an RSS reader. I white listed it at first. But now that I gave it a second look, it's one of the most rampant bot on my blog.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43826798

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1. dmurray ◴[25 Aug 25 07:15 UTC] No.45011175[source]▶

>>45010698 #

If I had a shady web crawling bot and I implemented a feature for it to avoid zip bombs, I would probably also test it by aggressively crawling a site that is known to protect itself with hand-made zip bombs.

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2. sim7c00 ◴[25 Aug 25 10:02 UTC] No.45012178[source]▶

>>45011175 (TP) #

also protect yourself fromnsucking up fake generated content. i know some folks here like to feed them all sorts of 'data' . fun stuff :D

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