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warkdarrior on April 29, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I use zip bombs to protect my server

`unzip -p | head -c 10MB`

kccqzy on April 30, 2025 [–]

Doesn't deal with multi-file ZIP archives. And before you think you can just reject user uploads with multi-file ZIP archives, remember that macOS ZIP files contain the __MACOSX folder with ._ files.

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