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Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] Sandbag@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, really shilling for Russian software man, that's low, certainly the Russians have no insights to 7zip.

[โ€“] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You can read and build the source code yourself if you're really worried what some Russian FOSS contributors are up to, but I can assure you it's going to be a lot less sus that whatever a proprietary application can do without any ability to audit and check the code.