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Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by dathinab on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:49PM (#24076245)
In my experience password protected files are often password protected for obscure reasons which have nothing to do with the intent of keeping them secret, like:

- prevent anti virus from messing with it

- keep to some obscure regulations wrt. Contacts or law, where is enough if you can argue the data was encrypted.

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Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by mensetmanusman on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:34PM (#24076528)
If you make zip files in a company, there is never a repository of passwords, because that would be insecure, ergo zip files with other passwords usually are not easy to unzip after 5-10 years when the owner is dead/gone and the passwords are lost.
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