Who even uses WinRAR unironically?
Possibly older people and people with very specific use cases (like I did a few days ago).
WinRAR is very useful to extract multipart archives that 7-Zip fails at, and has many clutch functions like builtin recovery records, locking archives and individually batch archiving separate files.
Is WinRAR free to use? (is it free software?!)
Free as in beer, but it practically has no expiration date, and the creator intends everyone to freely use it. He only gets money from corporate licensing.
Sorry, I’m asking if WinRAR is free software.
Free software means having a source license equivalent to the BSD license.
“Rational” people can invent rationale and become more irrational than irrational people. That is what you are doing on Reddit and now on Lemmy.
You are not a victim of privacy community but your own hobbyist privacy obsession, and you are not one bit superior to others for using BSD over Linux. WinRAR is objectively superior to 7-Zip as far as data preservation and archival capabilities go, while 7-Zip is a little bit ahead on compression ratio.
You are not a victim of privacy community but your own hobbyist privacy obsession
Wasted 2023 securing the system and learned nothing. And racing on privacy tools does not gain you “practical” privacy.
a question for you: Did the privacy race actually helped you learn C? Understand Linux? Or just “You will not believe this, but Linux and Windows are almost identical today”
and you are not one bit superior to others for using BSD over Linux.
Technically agreed, but what I’m superior is: When I switch to OpenBSD, my security & privacy race ended.
WinRAR is objectively superior to 7-Zip as far as data preservation and archival capabilities go, while 7-Zip is a little bit ahead on compression ratio.
Go on arguing winrar is not open source like you did for other softwares? So it contain backdoor?
Badly licensed software can’t be used legally. BKAV antivirus embedded winrar in the 2000s, but have to remove it when a guy noticed. And now it cannot decompress .rar files to scan for malware.
Wasted 2023 securing the system and learned nothing. And racing on privacy tools does not gain you “practical” privacy.
If you are entering the privacy rabbit hole and treating it like a Discord game cult/community, that is YOUR fault. Many people do that (PrivacyGuides, Techlore or bunch of Linux/FOSS/privacy YouTube channels or Big Tech loving crybully witchhunt cults like GrapheneOS), and that is precisely what I target and destroy, and also the reason why I never had a donation channel, a fancy website/blog or a GitHub to pretend and posture like a smartass. 99% people do that. I have been asked and demanded and begged for a personal website/blog and chatroom by people, and refused it.
You want to check out serious privacy stuff without the circus? Check out digdeeper’s blog. Check out Shadow Wiki. Spyware watchdog. Narsil on Nixnet’s Git instance. Or whatever I write.
question for you: Did the privacy race actually helped you learn C? Understand Linux? Or just “You will not believe this, but Linux and Windows are almost identical today”
Did learning C teach you privacy and security? No. Did learning networking teach you data structures? No. Did learning arrays teach you calculus? No. Your logic is out of this universe. And yes, Linux and Windows are now very identical.
Technically agreed, but what I’m superior is: When I switch to OpenBSD, my security & privacy race ended.
I can be on $50 BLU or FirePhone, not have or use Facebook, Discord and Instagram, and be more private and probably more secure than you using Facebook/Instagram/Discord on BSD. Put a cap on that bullshit. You are an idiot for reducing the argument to using particular OS for ending your “security & privacy race”. It was never a race, and you fell for the * drumroll * privacy circus hook, line and sinker. No, you are inferior for thinking that.
Go on arguing winrar is not open source like you did for other softwares? So it contain backdoor? Badly licensed software can’t be used legally. BKAV antivirus embedded winrar in the 2000s
BKAV embedded WinRAR? How is that WinRAR’s fault? Was there a paid contract involved in doing this, like Google Chrome gets slipped into free adware ridden setups? WinRAR has never done such a thing.
I never say every closed source software is evil and bad, infact I advocate the opposite. There are few rare closed source gems that prove their reputation is clean and their worth far more than FOSS “badge” can offset. I hate illogical FOSS or vegan evangelists, they are equally as bad as religious sheeps going around baptising or converting everyone. They merely gravitate towards the meritorious badge of altruism to exploit it for capitalist purposes.
TL;DR you fell for the privacy circus and are blaming everyone, and for some reason came to me, despite me preventing people from being cliffhanged into fake privacy circuses. You need to process and think everything. These cults/circuses you fall for are not some journey, but a NEET pastime.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A newly discovered zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file-compression program has been exploited for four months by unknown attackers who are using it to install malware when targets open booby-trapped JPGs and other innocuous inside file archives.
The attackers have been using the vulnerability to remotely execute code that installs malware from families, including DarkMe, GuLoader, and Remcos RAT.
WinRAR has more than 500 million users who rely on the program to compress large files to make them more manageable and quicker to upload and download.
Even when people attempt to examine them for malice, antivirus software often has trouble peering into the compressed data to identify malicious code.
The malicious ZIP archives Group-IB found were posted on public forums used by traders to swap information and discuss topics related to cryptocurrencies and other securities.
“Our researchers also saw evidence that the threat actors were able to unblock accounts that were disabled by forum administrators to continue spreading malicious files, whether by posting in threads or sending private messages."
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