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A lot of modern formats - jar, Apple's pages, etc, come to mind - are just zip files with a different extension. So which of these files which are really zip d
by willvarfar 7y ago
A lot of modern formats - jar, Apple's pages, etc, come to mind - are just zip files with a different extension.
So which of these files which are really zip do browsers or mail programs auto-open? Anyone think of any?
- masklinn 7y ago> A lot of modern formats - jar, Apple's pages, etc, come to mind - are just zip files with a different extension. They use zips as embedded file systems with well-specified structures, I wouldn’t expect them to blindly decompress everything. The format usually defines specific entry points (specially named files) which serve as pointers to the relevant information and link to other files. The bomb part would mostly be ignored filler there.
- jorangreef 7y agoDOCX, XLSX are also just ZIP files with the extension renamed.
- chatmasta 7y agoSnapchat messages were zip files at one point. Not sure if that's still true.