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RhynoD t1_itreqyh wrote

It's not possible for an already made file like that to exist. Unzipped zip bombs can be many thousands of petabytes, which are themselves a thousand terabytes each. Most computers have a few terabytes of storage at most (which is the point of the zip bomb) and even if they did, unzipping files that big would potentially take years (also the point of the zip bomb).

If you started with an actual file to compress it would take up that much space and take that long to compress. You'd zip bomb yourself.

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