Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe on Nostr: someone should maintain a list of weird things 7zip can do that a lot of people ...
someone should maintain a list of weird things 7zip can do that a lot of people likely don't realise it can do, like carve sections and headers out of PE/ELF executables, and (as I just learned) parse filesystems off raw disk device paths.
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