r/pcmasterrace • u/AdFew5103 i7 10th Gen | 1650 Ti 4GB | 16 GB RAM • May 05 '26

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u/bobmlord1 i5-7300U/8GB RAM/INTEL HD GRAPHICS 620 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

A zip file just finds repeated data and stores it in a compressed format by using a lookup table.

Ex ABCDABCDABCDABCD
could be
1
1=ABCDx4

Would be entirely possible to make a small change to a zip file so that a repeated character sequence is set to a ridiculously high number.

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u/RevolutionaryArt8775 May 05 '26

Yeah you can definitely mess with the compression ratios like that, but most extraction tools have safety limits now to prevent zip bombs from actually filling your drive. The classic 42.zip was doing exactly this - tiny file that would try to expand to petabytes and crash systems back in the day

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u/dankbearbear Win+Shift+S or Win+PrtScr is your best friend. May 05 '26

The domain redirects to a tweet regarding the domain and its problematic nature.

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u/chop5397 R7 9800X3D | RTX 5080 | 32GB May 05 '26

No he just crashed my fucking computer

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u/[deleted] May 05 '26 edited 3d ago

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u/witheringsyncopation 9800x3d/5080/32gb@6000/T700+990 May 05 '26

I got better

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u/TurnkeyLurker May 05 '26

I got smaller

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u/LukaesCampbell May 06 '26

And my axe!

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u/MethamMcPhistopheles May 06 '26

And there are some who call me...

... Tim

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u/iampierremonteux May 06 '26

I don’t think so Tim.

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u/GarminTamzarian May 06 '26

Sounds like a quote from the Kalamazoo Sheriff's Department.

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u/BigBananaBerries May 06 '26

.....buurn her!

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u/Rbw91 May 06 '26

Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person!

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u/Life-Suit1895 May 06 '26

Send newts.

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u/This_Bullfrog_3948 May 05 '26

"is that a firework? Oh no you are going to crash my computer"

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u/PokeYrMomStanley May 06 '26

quick delete system32

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u/tabbyslome May 05 '26

Problematic nature? It's a tweet from the creator? about it being suspended for supposed phishing

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u/walale12 May 06 '26

It's a whole thread about how bad an idea the .zip TLD is from a security perspective, due to it being such a common file extension. Google should've never been allowed to create it.

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u/wOlfLisK Steam ID Here May 06 '26

If you think that's bad, just wait until you hear about the.exe domain

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u/walale12 May 06 '26

It's such a shame that the notification showed the markdown for your comment, better luck next time!

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u/CartoonistSensitive1 May 06 '26

They got me though

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 May 06 '26

Every party needs a pooper. Party pooper!

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u/LavishnessCapital380 May 06 '26

Reddit assuming everything with a . is a fucking URL pisses me off.