[Coco] Big Security Issue

[Mike Delyea]

Maybe start converting them to .rar files.

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 9:38 PM coco--- via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

>
> All Coco list users.
>
> Google has made an extremely STUPID mistake that effects everyone's
> security. The following youtube video describes the problem.
>
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V82lHNsSPww
>
> As a result I would suggest that anyone who has a site with a zip file
> on it rename the zip file for example any file named
>
> f i l e . z i p  ( I have added extra spaces here for safety )
>
> should rename there file to file.zipfile the coco archive should requite
> all
> zip files to be uploaded with a .zipfile extension instead and all
> existing zip files in the archive should be renamed from zip to zipfile
> the user can then
> download the file with zipfile extension and rename it's extension to
> zip locally for unpacking maybe someone will want to create a version of
> unzip that can directly unpack a file with a name like x.zipfile
>
> Hate to be barer of bad news but looks like we all have a headache to
> deal with thanks to Google's stupidly or greed and ICAN's dereliction of
> duty. I hope someone gets together a Class action suit against them.
>
> Charlie
>
> In particular
>
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