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Is it legal to purposefully distribute a malicious payload as a booby trap?


Is it really malicious though? 10 gigs of zeros doesn’t seem that malicious to me. Microcontrollers often have a few megabytes of RAM if not less, does that make a few megabyte photo malicious?

Edit: spelling. I’m old school and used to typing on my computer. It’s getting repaired and all I’ve got is my phone. /rant


It's a joke answer at best, plus if someone would go complain, their actions for discovering the booby trap were illegal anyways.



I don't think that a zip bomb counts as "malicious". I can't think of a law (in the US) that would prohibit doing this sort of thing.


never link to it and add to robots.txt

digital castle doctrine or whatever.




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