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Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug (techcrunch.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The reason WinRAR was useful to me allllllll those years ago was for one thing and one thing only: You could split an archive into chunks. So mostly I found that it was good for getting my warez in 1.44MB chunks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Anon: hey Krudler, do you have a cracked copy of GTA3

Krudler: say no more, friend

Sends 350 floppy disks with the cracked game

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes. That splitting files was especially useful because emails used to have attachment size limits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No no no no

It was primarily used to post to USENET.

Back in the day, every byte of data was precious and bandwidth was insanely limited, nobody would ever email an attachment for that.

Due to some of the technical details about how email works, that would end up just bloating the file size and it would be the literally most inefficient way possible to send large blobs of data.