Harassing botnets with zipbombs
The idea is this: instead of just blocking IP addresses that hit honeypot URLs, feed them a compressed document that massively expands on their end, making them run out of memory and crash. This is extremely hypothetical. Maybe they won't actually crash. We can dare to dream, though. But, for laughs, I decided to try this out on Ye Olde Webbe Syte. It was tricky to figure out how to get ...