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Re:The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked by cm2187 on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:33PM (#35921975)
Those are the most dangerous. They will happily open a file suffixed .zip.exe when windows hides the extension and it shows as .zip.
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Re:The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked by wildrhythms on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:39PM (#35922068)
I genuinely believe this one change in the name of 'aesthetics' (or whatever justification was created for this) has caused real, material hurt for people.
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Re:The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked by Lammy on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:49PM (#35922201)
Indeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU
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