The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo
I’d be amazed if this works, since these sorts of tricks have been around since dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and most bots will use pretty modern zip libraries which will just return “nope” or throw an exception, which will be treated exactly the same way any corrupt file is - for example a site saying it’s serving a zip file but the contents are a generic 404 html file, which is not uncommon.
Also, be careful because you could destroy your own device? What the hell? No. Unless you’re using dd backwards and as root, you can’t do anything bad, and even then it’s the drive contents you overwrite, not the device you “destroy”.
Yeah, this article came across as if written by a complete beginner. They mention having their WordPress hacked, but failed to admit it was because they didn’t upgrade the install.
I’d be amazed if this works, since these sorts of tricks have been around since dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and most bots will use pretty modern zip libraries which will just return “nope” or throw an exception, which will be treated exactly the same way any corrupt file is - for example a site saying it’s serving a zip file but the contents are a generic 404 html file, which is not uncommon.
Also, be careful because you could destroy your own device? What the hell? No. Unless you’re using dd backwards and as root, you can’t do anything bad, and even then it’s the drive contents you overwrite, not the device you “destroy”.
On the other hand, there are lots of bots scraping Wikipedia even though it’s easy to download the entire website as a single archive.
So they’re not really that smart…
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Yeah, this article came across as if written by a complete beginner. They mention having their WordPress hacked, but failed to admit it was because they didn’t upgrade the install.