How to crash your PC with fork-bomb Denial-of-service attack

You learn something new every day. When it comes to computer attacks I've thought I saw many things but this little one really make me smile.

THIS ONE WILL CRASH YOU LINUX BOX. DON'T RUN IN ON YOUR PRODUCTION SYSTEM. If you want to test it create some cloud server or better read the explanation of what it does on the wiki.

 
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References

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb

PS.

I dedicate this post to Tim ;)