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Re: SEEK: freeware to decrypt password-protected Winzip files
de Franklin 06/28/2006 12:14
On 24 Jun 2006, Luc The
Perverse<sll_noSpamlicious_z_XXX_m@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
> "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
Luc, what you describe is extremely capricious, willful, devious,
underhand, sneaky, dangerous and potentially undermining.
You should be proud of yourself. And I only wish I had been there to
take part! :-)
I'm sure you would have got there even if you had to chop the file up so
much that no part of the binary was detectable any longer as an
executable or any other sort of file. Or even use lossless
steganography. Heh!