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Your company's antivirus, or GMail. A binary? A zip with a binary? Nuh-uh.
by stefan_ 6y ago
Your company's antivirus, or GMail. A binary? A zip with a binary? Nuh-uh.
- Delk 6y agoTo be fair, emailing binaries (apart from known types such as images, PDFs, etc.) is a rare enough use case for legitimate purposes and an easy enough way of spamming malware to clueless random people that it's probably a reasonable default for gmail. Having an option to allow them might be okay though. (I barely use gmail so I don't know if it has one or not.)
- sjg007 6y agoAh you must be young...
- totetsu 6y agofor not using gmail? The hooked me in school
- Alekhine 6y agoHe means there used to be a time when people would mail binaries to each other more often, before they got too big and DRM'ed for that.
- bawolff 6y agoThere was also a time when alt.binaries was a thing (technically not email, but usenet is pretty similar)
- Nasrudith 6y agoFor not sending binaries by email - there is no shame to being young in this case as it means never developing the bad habits. Before Dropbox and similiar it was far more a norm and various file sharing systems like SharePoint may wind up not actually used. Non-computer technical people often do so in companies all the time and practically use it as an ersatz version control system to the cringe of IT.
- totetsu 6y agoThis WebRTC p2p file transfer has been a revelation for me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23023675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23023675
- Akronymus 6y agoWe "thankfully" have shared folders we can use to drop stuff to specific users. But most of our software lives on a RDP server anyways.
- scruffyherder 6y agoI use vmdk’s Seriously I don’t know how long it’ll last but a zip file into a fat32 disk image in a vmdk got through just fine. The bonus is that 7zip can extract from vmdk.