![]() ![]() Why 9, why 10 files in each?įirst off, the Wikipedia article currently says 5 layers with 16 files each. The article mentions 9 layers of zip files, so it's not a simple case of zipping a bunch of zeros. ![]() This way, you get a file which, when uncompressed completely, produces an absurd amount of data without requiring you to start out with that amount.Īdditionally, the nested archives make it much harder for programs like virus scanners (the main target of these "bombs") to be smart and refuse to unpack archives that are "too large", because until the last level the total amount of data is not that much, you don't "see" how large the files at the lowest level are until you have reached that level, and each individual file is not "too large" - only the huge number is problematic. ![]() So all you need is one single 1.3GB file full of zeroes, compress that into a ZIP file, make 10 copies, pack those into a ZIP file, and repeat this process 9 times. 45.1.zip which was 45.1 kilobytes of compressed data, containing nine ![]()
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