diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3f753fa..395367e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # ZipBomb -This is for the people who watch Silicon Valley. In Season 3 Episode 7, Gilfoyle sends a sort of recursive program to Gavin Belson’s laptop and cellphone which forces him to shut down the power at Hooli. Watch [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdAqU4GRR9Y). Such an attack is called a [logic bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_bomb). +This is for the people who watch Silicon Valley. In Season 3 Episode 7, Gilfoyle sends a sort of recursive program to Gavin Belson's laptop and cellphone which forces him to shut down the power at Hooli. Watch [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdAqU4GRR9Y). Such an attack is called a [logic bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_bomb). -What it is basically is a huge file with dummy data compressed to many levels to generate a very small compressed file. For example in a test run, this script generates a compressed file of size approximately 30.58 KiB which when decompressed is 10^10 GiB. This is done to drain out a computer’s memory until a crash happens. Read more about zip bombs on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb#Details_and_use). +What it is basically is a huge file with dummy data compressed to many levels to generate a very small compressed file. For example in a test run, this script generates a compressed file of size approximately 30.58 KiB which when decompressed is 10^10 GiB. This is done to drain out a computer's memory until a crash happens. Read more about zip bombs on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb#Details_and_use). `zipbomb.py` is a script written in Python 3 which generates such a zip bomb.