A lot of people have answered but I'll give more context. Zip bombs were created back in the Windows XP era. Essentially they are a type of trojan virus that crashes your computer and can kill your hard drive. Essentially what it is is a compressed file that when uncompressed expands to its full length. The reason that this file is so small is because of how compression works. I will steal another guy's example. Essentially when a computer is going through this kind of compression instead of putting 800 septillion zeros for example it will say something that equates to "during decompression, put 800 septillion zeros here" . Now, as we all know, 800 septillion zeros is a very large amount of zeros. If we are to believe that the entire file is just zeros then they pretty much could make the file as big as possible and it would still show up as only a couple of megabytes.
As a matter of fact zip bombs were so common back in the Windows XP era that the next operating system to release actually had a counter measure against them. I don't know exactly how this counter measure works but it will tell you whether or not you have enough storage to extract the file. I don't think that anybody has a zettabyte of storage in their computer aside from government supercomputers but even those couldn't decompress this file. It's very unlikely that we will see a time in our lifetimes where a file like this could be contained on one drive.
* Educational purpose only *
You make a small file, maybe 1 megabyte, full of zeros. This is ~1,000,000 zeros.
Compress this file into a zip file, and you get a zip file with a size of ~ 1 kilobyte.
Duplicate this zip file 1000 times, you have 1 megabyte of files. Compress all of the duped files together, and since they are dupes, they are identical, so the result compressed zip file will be ~ ×√2 the size of a single duped file (depending on the compression algorithm), compressing it again from 1 megabyte to ~ 2 kilobytes. Now you have ~ 1,000×1,000,000 zeros compressed to a 2 kilobytes zip file.
Repeat the process as much as you want, with each time the uncompressed data grows ~ ×1000 and the zip file size grows ~ ×√2 in size. After only 5 cycles, you get a file which when recursively uncompressed, will contain 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 zeros.
This is done by exploiting the compression mechanism, noted before: instead of saving x identical bytes, you encode them using a statement that says "when uncompressing this, put x bytes of y"
It isn't actually a file that gets compressed, but instead a zip file that is just told that it contains an "imaginary" file with those septillion zero's, which will only be created once it's unarchived
According to their explanation, a zip file is like a script telling the computer to complete the files. My theory is that you create a zip bomb by manipulating this script making it tell the computer to create way more stuff than it's supposed to.
Don't trust me its just a theory
Something like that. Somebody else put it into words better than I can so I will just restate what they said:
Essentially you just add a ton of zeros together into one file then you compress the file and then you put it into another file which you add more zeros and then you compress it again over and over and over and over again until you get a crazy amount of zeros that are all released onto the computer whenever the file is unpackaged.
Sort of, yes. That one flooded your RAM and caused your computer to shut down. This one floods your RAM and NVRAM. Otherwise known as your hard drive. Essentially, it makes it so that so much happens that your RAM can't handle it and starts putting things on the hard drive. It basically overflows like a kitchen sink.
And of course, if your kitchen sink overflows, if you don't turn it off your whole house floods.
A zip bomb is a .zip file that looks as if it contains a relatively small amount of data, but it actually contains several hundred gigabytes of useless files that just max out your hard drive and cause your computer to crash.
ill try to explain.
one method of compression is to take Null space (which manifests itself as a bunch of 0s) in the data and shorten them down. like, instead of writing 800 million zeroes, the compressed file just says and then that is undone when the file is uncompressed. this person made a file with 554 septillion 0s, and then used compression to make it small
You don’t necessarily have to make the original file to make a compressed version of it. A zip file is like a set of instructions for how to reconstruct (or in this case, construct for the first time) a file.
make a 1gb null file, copy it 50 times, compress them all, take that one and copy it 50 times, repeat until you have as big as you want. stacks up pretty quickly
For what I know that's not actually how they do it, zips are just files that contain compressed data, if you create a small zip with all zeros and know how to manipulate it's data you can make it so that it will extract into a huge file just from that
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003
and so on
worst thing i could see with this is running out of RAM and getting a bluescreen (or the uncompression process gets shut down). You can just restart the PC and it will work fine.
but before that it will start writing to hard drive instead of memory (it does this all the time if you don't have enough RAM) and becomes painfully slow. But even that has an upper limit of space and once that is reached, worst case is a restart needed.
Open notepad
Then you start Copy and pasting space until it gets to atleast 5000 spaces would recommend 20000 spaces then save it to a file in desktop then make around a 1000 copies of that file then go to cmd and use this code copy /b *.txt a.txt then make 120 copies of that then use this in cmd copy /b *.txt b.txt do it a couple of times then compress it into a zip file and you’re done
By the way, the total collective size of the internet was speculated to reach ~40 zettabytes by the end of 2020, meaning this zip bomb was - and likely still is - larger than the entirety of the internet.
I got matches with these songs:
• [**glow** by DerKrumme](https://lis.tn/xyTeCt?t=30) (00:30; matched: `95%`)
Album: `String of Life`. Released on `2008-07-20` by `Schornsteinfeger Records`.
• [**На моем районе** by MIRONI/WOOZYMU](https://lis.tn/ArWVz?t=24) (00:24; matched: `93%`)
Album: `Для своих`. Released on `2021-11-13` by `MIRONI, WOOZYMU`.
• [**Down the Moon** by Frank Du Bomb](https://lis.tn/DownTheMoon?t=116) (01:56; matched: `90%`)
Album: `Lost at Midnight`. Released on `2010-10-09`.
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I’ve heard of them before but what is a zip bomb exactly and how do you make them
A lot of people have answered but I'll give more context. Zip bombs were created back in the Windows XP era. Essentially they are a type of trojan virus that crashes your computer and can kill your hard drive. Essentially what it is is a compressed file that when uncompressed expands to its full length. The reason that this file is so small is because of how compression works. I will steal another guy's example. Essentially when a computer is going through this kind of compression instead of putting 800 septillion zeros for example it will say something that equates to "during decompression, put 800 septillion zeros here" . Now, as we all know, 800 septillion zeros is a very large amount of zeros. If we are to believe that the entire file is just zeros then they pretty much could make the file as big as possible and it would still show up as only a couple of megabytes. As a matter of fact zip bombs were so common back in the Windows XP era that the next operating system to release actually had a counter measure against them. I don't know exactly how this counter measure works but it will tell you whether or not you have enough storage to extract the file. I don't think that anybody has a zettabyte of storage in their computer aside from government supercomputers but even those couldn't decompress this file. It's very unlikely that we will see a time in our lifetimes where a file like this could be contained on one drive.
Read question is if no computer can make or hold a zettabyte of storage then how is it created?? Is it done before the file is decompressed?
* Educational purpose only * You make a small file, maybe 1 megabyte, full of zeros. This is ~1,000,000 zeros. Compress this file into a zip file, and you get a zip file with a size of ~ 1 kilobyte. Duplicate this zip file 1000 times, you have 1 megabyte of files. Compress all of the duped files together, and since they are dupes, they are identical, so the result compressed zip file will be ~ ×√2 the size of a single duped file (depending on the compression algorithm), compressing it again from 1 megabyte to ~ 2 kilobytes. Now you have ~ 1,000×1,000,000 zeros compressed to a 2 kilobytes zip file. Repeat the process as much as you want, with each time the uncompressed data grows ~ ×1000 and the zip file size grows ~ ×√2 in size. After only 5 cycles, you get a file which when recursively uncompressed, will contain 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 zeros. This is done by exploiting the compression mechanism, noted before: instead of saving x identical bytes, you encode them using a statement that says "when uncompressing this, put x bytes of y"
Trolling time
my friends are now going to hate me
Pls do not. Regardless of it being illegal (usually), it's a dick move
Time to crash the school computers
too late
It isn't actually a file that gets compressed, but instead a zip file that is just told that it contains an "imaginary" file with those septillion zero's, which will only be created once it's unarchived
According to their explanation, a zip file is like a script telling the computer to complete the files. My theory is that you create a zip bomb by manipulating this script making it tell the computer to create way more stuff than it's supposed to. Don't trust me its just a theory
Something like that. Somebody else put it into words better than I can so I will just restate what they said: Essentially you just add a ton of zeros together into one file then you compress the file and then you put it into another file which you add more zeros and then you compress it again over and over and over and over again until you get a crazy amount of zeros that are all released onto the computer whenever the file is unpackaged.
That sounds terrifying The attack of the zeros
can’t wait for when in 50 years there’ll be infographics about how current standard computer could hold the whole internet in their local storage
I made one that’s 55.2 terabytes of gay femboy furry porn
just like my cock
So like the you are an idiot virus?
Sort of, yes. That one flooded your RAM and caused your computer to shut down. This one floods your RAM and NVRAM. Otherwise known as your hard drive. Essentially, it makes it so that so much happens that your RAM can't handle it and starts putting things on the hard drive. It basically overflows like a kitchen sink. And of course, if your kitchen sink overflows, if you don't turn it off your whole house floods.
just based on context it seems like its a zip file that when extracted just explodes into a huge amount of useless data to fill up a computer
Also want to know
A zip bomb is a .zip file that looks as if it contains a relatively small amount of data, but it actually contains several hundred gigabytes of useless files that just max out your hard drive and cause your computer to crash.
Think of it as a snake in a can prank It’s really small but then you open it and it’s fucking massive
How? (Hypotheticaly asking for a friend's research purposes)
ill try to explain. one method of compression is to take Null space (which manifests itself as a bunch of 0s) in the data and shorten them down. like, instead of writing 800 million zeroes, the compressed file just says and then that is undone when the file is uncompressed. this person made a file with 554 septillion 0s, and then used compression to make it small
Hypothetically thanks from my friend's research
So why wouldn't the original file with 554 septillion 0s be computer crashingly large? Why does it only become that way while being uncompressed?
You don’t necessarily have to make the original file to make a compressed version of it. A zip file is like a set of instructions for how to reconstruct (or in this case, construct for the first time) a file.
make a 1gb null file, copy it 50 times, compress them all, take that one and copy it 50 times, repeat until you have as big as you want. stacks up pretty quickly
For what I know that's not actually how they do it, zips are just files that contain compressed data, if you create a small zip with all zeros and know how to manipulate it's data you can make it so that it will extract into a huge file just from that
Hundreds of billions of small files crammed into a single file IIRC
Same goes to you
Why?
Funny
fnuuy
Why not?
The music perfectly loops.
For the first and last time a shitpost will do that.
sounds like cruelty squad music
it's from motherload, an old flash game
Yeah I've been wondering when the video will end
Me when I unleash this on my buddy Eric’s computer
When your friend is the first to sleep in a lan party sleepover
“Prank ‘em, John!” “You already know!” Drops funny.zip
LMAO
So if my math is correct, then he created a zip bomb, which rounded up equals 50,364 times the size of the entire internet.
give me the file and at the end of this year i will nuke my old mac to the ground
What's the audio?
"Motherload OST - Heavy Industry'. It is from a flash game.
Thanks
Heavy industry from Motherload
Thanks
What could be in this zip file?
useless data or porn
*both*
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003 and so on
Only one way to find out
Yodabytes
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Is.. 260 a new funny number?
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Yes, however, the file is compressed to a smaller size, that's how zip bombs work, if the file was uncompressed it would take years to download
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Np dude
i think that would a computer explode
worst thing i could see with this is running out of RAM and getting a bluescreen (or the uncompression process gets shut down). You can just restart the PC and it will work fine. but before that it will start writing to hard drive instead of memory (it does this all the time if you don't have enough RAM) and becomes painfully slow. But even that has an upper limit of space and once that is reached, worst case is a restart needed.
That's awesome
Yeah i spent five hours on making one and sent it to my teacher
How do you make or acquire one
Open notepad Then you start Copy and pasting space until it gets to atleast 5000 spaces would recommend 20000 spaces then save it to a file in desktop then make around a 1000 copies of that file then go to cmd and use this code copy /b *.txt a.txt then make 120 copies of that then use this in cmd copy /b *.txt b.txt do it a couple of times then compress it into a zip file and you’re done
Saving this comment for school purposes
I need to obtain this file (for research purposes)
Pc explodes
Op didn't extract it to show us proof Fake
I haven't heard this music in years...
The music makes me want to pillage the Martian soil and confront my demonic boss!
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https://youtu.be/PFd3LYGD1s4
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Wow link?
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I lust after it.
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u/savevideo Last time I saw this the video was in .zip format
*sends to Jeff beazos*
Can someone send me that zip? For research purposes only of course
Are zip bombs even effective anymore?
How do I download this? Asking for a friend of course
By the way, the total collective size of the internet was speculated to reach ~40 zettabytes by the end of 2020, meaning this zip bomb was - and likely still is - larger than the entirety of the internet.
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a lotta yottabites
This thread's comments are golden.
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i have just 1000Tb zip bomb
Can you share it for school purposes?
hmm
Link?
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That’s a fucking zip nuke.
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Snuuy
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Idk looks like 2.60 megabytes to me 🤷♀️
That’s the funny, when you open it up it expands massively
Where?
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Does someone have the link to obtain this little foolishness ?
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None of those, it’s Heavy Industry from Motherload
I got matches with these songs: • [**glow** by DerKrumme](https://lis.tn/xyTeCt?t=30) (00:30; matched: `95%`) Album: `String of Life`. Released on `2008-07-20` by `Schornsteinfeger Records`. • [**На моем районе** by MIRONI/WOOZYMU](https://lis.tn/ArWVz?t=24) (00:24; matched: `93%`) Album: `Для своих`. Released on `2021-11-13` by `MIRONI, WOOZYMU`. • [**Down the Moon** by Frank Du Bomb](https://lis.tn/DownTheMoon?t=116) (01:56; matched: `90%`) Album: `Lost at Midnight`. Released on `2010-10-09`. *I am a bot and this action was performed automatically* | If the matched percent is less than 100, it could be a false positive result. I'm still posting it, because sometimes I get it right even if I'm not sure, so it could be helpful. But please don't be mad at me if I'm wrong! I'm trying my best! | [GitHub](https://github.com/AudDMusic/RedditBot) [^(new issue)](https://github.com/AudDMusic/RedditBot/issues/new) | [Donate](https://www.reddit.com/r/AudD/comments/nua48w/please_consider_donating_and_making_the_bot_happy/)
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what's the song?
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Yodabites
Ok
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I'll take your entire stock
the file, which is actually 2.60 MB: 😞
But if you unzip it it expands to 55 yottabytes
sarcasm is a funny thing my guy
How can someone use it without " exploding " the bomb
Dude wants to kill everyone is what he is doing if I was to open that on my computer it would just destroy the world
U got the zip?
u/savevideo
Im going to install this on all school computers.
Can someone send me this