• Re: [USN-7349-1] RAR vulnerabilities

    From digimaus@618:618/1 to Sean Rima on Thu Mar 13 20:26:46 2025
    Sean Rima wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    I am also a registered user, but don't use it. Not even sure if the keyfile is used under Linux. Never knew that about info-zip

    Oh, it's the actual ZIP code by Phil Katz. If anything, Info-ZIP is its original code based on reverse engineering ZIP packets.

    Here's one of the videos I watched on YT that explains how ZIP came to be
    and how the BBS community embraced it based on Katz's lies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu7sY1LOWiI

    I also did some fact-checking of my own and sadly, the video seems to be
    spot on.

    -- Sean

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  • From TheCivvie@618:500/1.1 to digimaus on Fri Mar 14 10:03:49 2025

    Hello digimaus!

    13 Mar 25 20:26, you wrote to me:

    I am also a registered user, but don't use it. Not even sure if
    the keyfile is used under Linux. Never knew that about info-zip

    Oh, it's the actual ZIP code by Phil Katz. If anything, Info-ZIP is
    its original code based on reverse engineering ZIP packets.

    Here's one of the videos I watched on YT that explains how ZIP came to
    be and how the BBS community embraced it based on Katz's lies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu7sY1LOWiI

    I also did some fact-checking of my own and sadly, the video seems to
    be spot on.

    That was very interesting. And such a sad end for Katz.

    TheCivvie


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