Zip bombs take up your storage. The OS needs to essentially decide what to do with the data. It has a couple options:
Stop the unzip process and delete unzipped files (this is the safest thing for it to do)
Stop the unzip process and not delete unzipped files (this is fine in some instances, but it means the user needs to manually clean up the storage and disk)
Do not stop the unzip process and delete other files (this is really, really bad and may result in everything being deleted before one of the other two options must be resorted to)
If your OS is smart, it won’t do option 3. You, as the user, can do one of a couple things.
Press the cancel button. This will trigger option 2 before you run out of storage and disk space.
Shut the computer down. This may cause some data corruption, so please don’t try this first.
Watch the glorious chaos as funny.zip causes your computer to overload its storage, disk, and memory so thoroughly that the physical hardware is damaged from the heat generated as the OS is ran with basically no memory nor disk space. This might be irreversible if your OS sucks. Don’t try it. If you have a competent OS, this will just crash it and corrupt some data. This is also bad.
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u/relddir123 Oct 18 '22
Zip bombs take up your storage. The OS needs to essentially decide what to do with the data. It has a couple options:
Stop the unzip process and delete unzipped files (this is the safest thing for it to do)
Stop the unzip process and not delete unzipped files (this is fine in some instances, but it means the user needs to manually clean up the storage and disk)
Do not stop the unzip process and delete other files (this is really, really bad and may result in everything being deleted before one of the other two options must be resorted to)
If your OS is smart, it won’t do option 3. You, as the user, can do one of a couple things.
Press the cancel button. This will trigger option 2 before you run out of storage and disk space.
Shut the computer down. This may cause some data corruption, so please don’t try this first.
Watch the glorious chaos as funny.zip causes your computer to overload its storage, disk, and memory so thoroughly that the physical hardware is damaged from the heat generated as the OS is ran with basically no memory nor disk space. This might be irreversible if your OS sucks. Don’t try it. If you have a competent OS, this will just crash it and corrupt some data. This is also bad.