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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] 48 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Fuck WinRAR. It's for normie NPCs. 7Zip is FOSS, and everybody should be using it instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

7zip's Linux port (p7zip) was lagging back in functionality last I heard, and also was abandoned then, don't know how it is now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It has an official Linux port now, goes by 7zz

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

why do I find nothing about that on the 7zip website, but I do find stuff about p7zip?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://7-zip.org/download.html contains Linux downloads and in them 7zz binaries.

The front page with the p7zip link looks out of date.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I see, thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ah. It's not packaged in xbps which is why I didn't know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Better yet stop using Windows

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm a .NET dev, I wish lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd say "well .NET is cross platform" but knowing the average company on .NET it's probably version 3.5 and running off a windows 95 server that hisses whenever someone gets too close to it.

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

Tbh I quite like developing .net on my Mac. I do away with VS and just use vscode and command line. It feels nice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I used to use Mac with rider on my last job, and it worked nicely! Sadly it's not really an option working with legacy stuff

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Broken record

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Better yet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not feasible for the vast majority of users. It's still not mature. Dunno when it'll be if ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

BETTER YET

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow, really shilling for Russian software man, that's low, certainly the Russians have no insights to 7zip.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You can read and build the source code yourself if you're really worried what some Russian FOSS contributors are up to, but I can assure you it's going to be a lot less sus that whatever a proprietary application can do without any ability to audit and check the code.