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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hidden file extensions is such a terrible default it amazes me that Microsoft is still doing that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

macOS does this too shockingly despite using the file extension as a “hint” to the file type. I think it’s unique in that most UNIX/Linux systems use magic number and Windows blindly accepts that the file is of the type that matches the extension.