This question about zip bombs naturally led me to the Wikipedia page on the topic. The article mentions an example of a 45.1 kb zip file that decompresses to 1.3 exabytes.
What are the principles/techniques that would be used to create such a file in the first place? I don't want to actually do this, more interested in a simplified "how-stuff-works" explanation of the concepts involved.
The article mentions 9 layers of zip files, so it's not a simple case of zipping a bunch of zeros. Why 9, why 10 files in each?