First of all, this was already posted in Lemmy several times in several places. Just because it’s a critical vulnerability doesn’t mean you keep reposting it every month - just how long will you keep reposting it?
Also, hardly anyone uses WinRAR these days, so this isn’t really as important as you make of it. Your post may have been relevant when the zero-day came out, but a month later - no one cares.
You didn’t, but it was posted by others. Posting about a critical vulnerability a whole month later is pointless. If this was acceptable then we’d see people constantly posting outdated news stories for critical vulnerabilities in other apps weeks or months after it’s been published, which doesn’t make sense. Admit it, you made a mistake in posting this - you didn’t check the date and thought it was a new article, right? Otherwise why would you post about this a month later?
because the potential of users getting affected is massive.
Except, it’s not actually popular these days, and therefore, it doesn’t really warrant reposting such old and irrelevant news. And my earlier point still stands - what you posted is basically a repost. Just because you missed it doesn’t mean others have, nor does it justify it.
You probably won’t believe me that WinRAR isn’t popular, so I made a poll just for this - you can see for yourself that not many people here actually use WinRAR.
Do you realise WinRAR has over half a billion users
Citation needed. But regardless, these users are clearly not on Lemmy. This is about relevance to Lemmy users, and the poll reflects how relevant WinRAR is for them.
No matter what large software downloading website you check (Softpedia, Majorgeeks, Techspot, Filehorse, Filehippo), the most popular downloaded software will have these at the top.
That’s not really a valid metric, because these sites only show the total downloads, and don’t display recent numbers. WinRAR may have been popular 10 years ago, but they don’t show how many users downloaded it in the last year or whatever, so those numbers are meaningless.
You have no idea about general user security and popular software demographics.
I’ve been a Windows sysadmin for 11+ years and used computers since the days of MSDOS, so don’t tell me I don’t know software demographics. It’s you who is out of touch. Besides pirates, I’ve haven’t seen anyone still actually use WinRAR in the wild. The average user just doesn’t have a need for WinRAR - Windows already creates and opens zip files, and that’s all they need, because everyone else uses mainly zip files these days. And in offices, where they may need to transfer password protected files, they may ocassionaly use 7zip (due to its more secure encryption). But that’s all. Excluding Linux and Mac users, Windows users mainly only use .zip and .7zip these days (once again, excluding pirates).
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First of all, this was already posted in Lemmy several times in several places. Just because it’s a critical vulnerability doesn’t mean you keep reposting it every month - just how long will you keep reposting it?
Also, hardly anyone uses WinRAR these days, so this isn’t really as important as you make of it. Your post may have been relevant when the zero-day came out, but a month later - no one cares.
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You didn’t, but it was posted by others. Posting about a critical vulnerability a whole month later is pointless. If this was acceptable then we’d see people constantly posting outdated news stories for critical vulnerabilities in other apps weeks or months after it’s been published, which doesn’t make sense. Admit it, you made a mistake in posting this - you didn’t check the date and thought it was a new article, right? Otherwise why would you post about this a month later?
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Except, it’s not actually popular these days, and therefore, it doesn’t really warrant reposting such old and irrelevant news. And my earlier point still stands - what you posted is basically a repost. Just because you missed it doesn’t mean others have, nor does it justify it.
You probably won’t believe me that WinRAR isn’t popular, so I made a poll just for this - you can see for yourself that not many people here actually use WinRAR.
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Citation needed. But regardless, these users are clearly not on Lemmy. This is about relevance to Lemmy users, and the poll reflects how relevant WinRAR is for them.
That’s not really a valid metric, because these sites only show the total downloads, and don’t display recent numbers. WinRAR may have been popular 10 years ago, but they don’t show how many users downloaded it in the last year or whatever, so those numbers are meaningless.
I’ve been a Windows sysadmin for 11+ years and used computers since the days of MSDOS, so don’t tell me I don’t know software demographics. It’s you who is out of touch. Besides pirates, I’ve haven’t seen anyone still actually use WinRAR in the wild. The average user just doesn’t have a need for WinRAR - Windows already creates and opens zip files, and that’s all they need, because everyone else uses mainly zip files these days. And in offices, where they may need to transfer password protected files, they may ocassionaly use 7zip (due to its more secure encryption). But that’s all. Excluding Linux and Mac users, Windows users mainly only use .zip and .7zip these days (once again, excluding pirates).
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