> Both zips and sqlite cannot be read with a text editor. Both are open formats with widely available tools to read them. Well, that's why your archive format

> Both zips and sqlite cannot be read with a text editor. Both are open formats with widely available tools to read them. Well, that's why your archive format of choice should be cpio, which is almost a text file except that modern implementations tend to 0-terminate the filename! Jokes aside, there are widely-distributed tools that can take in an almost-arbitrary zip file and account for every byte in it. The format is straightforward enough that, were you so inclined, you can do most of it (other than, like, decompression and crc-checking) manually in a text editor. The SQLite format is not like this. There is one implementation, and relatively easy to "hide" data in a database file that its tooling will not reveal.