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Understanding the "fork bomb" an 11 character string that can crash Windows, Mac, or Linux machines

Tuesday September 27, 2022. 03:00 PM , from BoingBoing
In this video on Dave's Garage, he discusses the 'fork bomb,' a DoS (denial-of-service) attack where a process replicates itself until it depletes all system resources, slowing or crashing the system. The bomb is nothing more than an 11-character program that, when entered into a Bash prompt, will replicate itself until the computer crashes. — Read the rest
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