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Re: SEEK: freeware to decrypt password-protected Winzip files
de Luc The Perverse 06/24/2006 04:53
"Ari Silverstein" <abcarisilverstein@yahoo.comxyz> wrote in message
news:1diwjmnjta6yb$.n7qwhv1mdmvv$.dlg@40tude.net...
>> My old work would recurse embedded zip files and find EXE files and
>> delete
>> them. Security through data destruction as the old adage goes - if you
>> destroy all computers in the world there would be no viruses!
>
> lol
>
> What did they use to recurse?
No clue. In fact I was blown away when nesting it inside a zip file didn't
work.
>> We found that password encrypting the outside zip file, while leaving the
>> inside zip file alone allowed the file to pass by (which made sense, they
>> couldn't decrypt it)
>
> Workarounds, love 'em.
Um . . . The IT department was "the enemy". To them we, the users, were
the enemy. There were members of the IT department that believed that we,
even as software engineers, could not be trusted to send BAT, VBS and EXE
files. They stood by their decisions. We joked about creating a
proprietary packaging format and just using the extension .data But we
never did. Oh well
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LTP
:)