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Message   digimaus    Sean Rima   Re: [USN-7349-1] RAR vulnerabilities   March 13, 2025
 8:26 PM *  

-=> Sean Rima wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 SR> I am also a registered user, but don't use it. Not even sure if the
 SR> 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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