Ivan Enderlin 🦀<p>A valid HTML zip bomb, <a href="https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@ache" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ache</span></a></span> </p><p>The article shows how to create an HTML zip bomb for AI crawlers not respecting the `robots.txt` file.</p><p>A zip bomb is a huge file (like 10Gib), that once compressed, has a reasonable size like 10Mib. An AI crawler will uncompressed it and will see all its memory being consumed, leading to a possible crash.</p><p>That’s an effective way to counter-attack disrespectful AI crawlers.</p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/html" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>html</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/ZipBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZipBomb</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>