TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archiveswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square131fedilinkarrow-up1647arrow-down19
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minus-squareTORFdot0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoWinRAR is an internet institution at this point. It’s like Amtrak, why would anyone ride the train when there are better cheaper and faster modes of transport? Don’t know but people do anyway
minus-squareLastYearsPumpkin@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoWhat? Amtrak is great for specific use cases. For intrastate travel in the US, Amtrak often is the fastest, cheapest, most comfortable experience. Oddly, going two states over, it’s often the slowest and most expensive, but for mid haul distance, Amtrak is fantastic.
minus-squareTORFdot0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s kind of my point that WinRAR has its limited use cases like Amtrak does although majority of the time it’s more efficient to use something else
WinRAR is an internet institution at this point. It’s like Amtrak, why would anyone ride the train when there are better cheaper and faster modes of transport? Don’t know but people do anyway
What? Amtrak is great for specific use cases. For intrastate travel in the US, Amtrak often is the fastest, cheapest, most comfortable experience.
Oddly, going two states over, it’s often the slowest and most expensive, but for mid haul distance, Amtrak is fantastic.
That’s kind of my point that WinRAR has its limited use cases like Amtrak does although majority of the time it’s more efficient to use something else