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Fun with gzip bombs and email clients
I served a 10MB gzip bomb as an image in HTML email. Most clients and proxies coped, iOS Mail crashed and Evolution wrote 100GB of cache to my disk.
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On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2025 | Fun with gzip bombs and email clients by bundie | 155 | 50 |
