Subj : Re: [USN-7349-1] RAR vulnerabilities
To   : Sean Rima
From : digimaus
Date : Thu Mar 13 2025 20:26:46

-=> 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

.... Maugham's Thought: only a mediocre person is always at his best.
--- MultiMail/Linux
 * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (618:618/1)

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