• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    Pretty sure I’m not gonna be running anything involving “gzip -d”, seems like probably a bad idea, lol.

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        10 hours ago

        Ahah, ah… yeah, yep, uh, you got me, stinkin little coward over here.

        But uh hey, I could always try that out on your PC, right big bro?

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        11 hours ago

        Is that even some particular kind of actual instruction set, or just gibberish that would cause something like a fork bomb?

        I guess it is a base-d virus though, 64 ways to sunday…

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          3 hours ago

          For it to be anything executable you’d have to pipe it into bash again to evaluate it

          For it to be a zip bomb of any merit, the gzipped contents would have to have more than a few bytes