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		david422 on April 30, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I use zip bombs to protect my server > He found out later (after a defrag) that the "compressor" was just hiding data in unused disk sectors and storing references to them So you could access the files until you wrote more data to disk?

thehappypm on April 30, 2025 [–]

Strange to think that is approach would actually work pretty damn well for most people because most people aren’t using therefore hard drive space

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