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Threat actors exploited Windows 0-day for more than a year before Microsoft fixed it (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I already addressed compression. It's as entirely trivial to whitelist those cases as it is to do in the first place.

Again, I said it's not magic. But most of these cases are inattention that would be reduced meaningfully if Windows made them actually pick what file type they were opening. There's a big gap between "advanced users" who will notice that it's the only file with an extension and morons who will just skip everything no matter what it says.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Don't bother with teh MS apologists. They are the worst.

If the operating system doesn't know the file and the type of file, it's a bad operating system.

It should be trivial to have an OS determine the file type and display a warning if the extension doesn't match.

Posix has had file for decades.