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you probably need to add a password to the zip file or it will be scanned too.
by wolf550e 9y ago
you probably need to add a password to the zip file or it will be scanned too.
- doingmyting 9y agoand rename the ".zip" extension to ".renameToZip"
- fredley 9y ago"This file cannot be sent, since its content cannot be confirmed to be safe and virus-free". Maybe not today, but it's not an inconceivable next step...
- devrandomguy 9y agoOh no, I've encountered this many times already. Sometimes, double-wrapping the archive satisfies a system that isn't recursively extracting archives. :/ Shall we try stenography next?
- jacobolus 9y ago*steganography
- devrandomguy 9y agoToday I learned a new word from spellcheck. Stenography refers to taking notes or writing in shorthand form, not crypto.
- ngneer 9y agoHappened to me some years back during an interview :-/
- revelation 9y agoYou're kidding, but this is Google Mail today. I've pretty much given up on sending executables.
- nfriedly 9y agoIf you zip it and change the file extension, gmail will let it through. My friends and I occasionally send each other .googlesdumb files.
- Cerium 9y agoWe send .renametozip files.
- Certhas 9y agoIt will now also not allow sending .js files. Or zip files containing .js. So much for emailing a draft of a web application to a colleague. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590?hl=en To protect you against potential viruses and harmful software, Gmail doesn't allow you to attach certain types of files, including: > Certain file types (listed below), including their compressed form (like .gz or .bz2 files) or when found within archives (like .zip or .tgz files) > Documents with malicious macros > Archives whose listed file content is password protected > Password protected archives whose content is an archive File types you can't include as attachments: .ADE, .ADP, .BAT, .CHM, .CMD, .COM, .CPL, .EXE, .HTA, .INS, .ISP, .JAR, .JS (NEW), .JSE, .LIB, .LNK, .MDE, .MSC, .MSI, .MSP, .MST, .NSH .PIF, .SCR, .SCT, .SHB, .SYS, .VB, .VBE, .VBS, .VXD, .WSC, .WSF, .WSH
- thanksgiving 9y agoI wouldn't blame them because there is so much "easy" bad things people do except that all the ad networks apparently allow an advertiser to run whatever JavaScript they want in a third party website. I would be in their side if they disallowed JavaScript in ads.
- hiptobecubic 9y agoWhy are you emailing source code around in 2017 anyway?
- noir_lord 9y agoI tried to send a zipped archive of some code on Google the other week (old project), it rejected it, so I zipped it again with a password, it still rejected it. In the end I had to throw it up on the web with a strong password. Not sure if they the prior attempt unpassworded set a flat for the subsequent attempt but Google though is almost superhuman when it comes to blocking malicious stuff I do wonder what the false positive rate is like.
- unsignedint 9y agoPerhaps because ZIP password do not encrypt header (file list?) Format like 7z works well for this purpose as it has an option to encrypt header info.
- azdle 9y agoYou can also just rename a x.zip to x.piz (or any nonsense extension) and most services won't try to parse it as a zip.
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- marak830 9y agoIt's a shit workaround but I have been adding the extension .txt onto the end then telling them to remove that
- Grangar 9y agoI usually upload to Stack and send a link to the file there.
- giovannibajo1 9y agoDoes that really work? I thought files on slack where only visible to the team members.
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- logicallee 9y agoYou guys are acting like it's such a big deal to steno it into a word document by base26-ing it into sentences as initialisms using markov chains. Facebook sends my 14 megabyte word files no problem (to transfer a 700 kb wav file). I mean sure it was easier on me or my recipients when I could just dump the base64 in there. And when it started rejecting that, adding the markov chains as initialisms was no walk in the park, you have to let your recipient know how to get it back out again (basically a perl one-liner). But at least there's lots of Gutenberg ebooks to train on and really it's just not that big of a deal. Anyone can do it in an hour or two in pretty much any language, just follow tutorials. Then just tell your recipients what to do and they'll jump through whatever hoops you want. I mean how else am I going to send a 700 kilobyte wav file? FedEx a custom-pressed CD under my own label? So really Facebook is pretty reasonable.
- H4CK3RM4N 9y agoWhy word documents instead of powerpoint slides?
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