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Re:The Perils of File Typing by jez on Sunday December 06, 2020 @04:11PM (#25326678)
Another little known file type feature is that if you’re using a sqlite database file as an application file format, there are a handful of bytes reserved for applications to register that “this is a SQLite file for use specifically with application X”

Application ID docs:

https://www.sqlite.org/draft/fileformat2.html#application_id

Re:The Perils of File Typing by yencabulator on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:41PM (#25338711)
Using SQLite as a transport format is not a good idea: https://research.checkpoint.com/select-code_execution-from-u...