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When lemmy.zip was announced, a few people were concerned about the .zip, as it could create security issues. Has it been the case so far? Has anyone ever been blocked by a work firewall due to .zip? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically title, curious as I know this had been brought up a while ago but never really followed up on the topic

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Are there any exploits that have ever made use of TLD <-> file extension confusion? This seems really unlikely to help pull off an attack, even if the TLD was .exe, but maybe I'm overly optimistic.