Showing posts with label trick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trick. Show all posts

2018-06-24

Not only zip bombs

Crawling around few corners of the net I've found a file named something like do not uncompress me unless you're a bot dot gz. It is, as per extension, a small gzipped file (26 kBytes), but — and this explains the suggestion — it expands into a 10 GBytes long files.

A sort of modest zip bomb, but for gzip.

You can find more on

Public domain image of an explosive device

Beware, those files can be dangerous if not handled properly! Do whatever you want at your own risk. Be safe.

2016-05-08

Beyond 140

Twitter has the limit of 140 characters per tweet, and this limit is even reduced when you add media contents like images. Now that Twitter is “consumed” through the web, there wouldn't be serious reasons not to rise that limit.

2015-10-17

It's a hard pr0n life

When money will begin to run out and we'll realize (again) that there's no value in it, barter will become the most popular way of exchanging and sharing resources: everyone will trade things for things, instead of promises of things for things.