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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server (idiallo.com)
submitted 10 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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[–] dwt@feddit.org 75 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sadly about the only thing that reliably helps against malicious crawlers is Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 30 points 10 months ago (5 children)

That URL is telling me "Invalid response". Am I a bot?

[–] doorknob88@lemmy.world 95 points 10 months ago

I’m sorry you had to find out this way.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Now you know why your mom spent so much time with the Amiga

[–] L_Acacia@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/user/known-broken-extensions

If you have JShelter installed, it breaks the proof of work from anubis

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You're using a VPN, right?

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Im not and it gave an invalid response. I am just chilling on my home wifi.

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Nope. Just using Vivaldi on my Android device.

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't really like this approach, not just because I was flagged as a bot, but because I don't really like captchas. I swear I'm not a bot guys!

[–] dwt@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago

That’s the reason I say ‚sadly‘. It’s definitely not good. But since everything else fails, this is what currently remains.