And then call it “critically important for everyone” when it only affects the users of one particular tool (which used to be popular 20 years ago, but is one a decline ever since).
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 If this was acceptable then we’d see people constantly posting outdated news stories for critical vulnerabilities in other apps weeks or months after it’s been published, which doesn’t make sense.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.
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I thought there was yet another WinRAR vulnerability, but turns out this is old news - why did you repost an article from last month?
And then call it “critically important for everyone” when it only affects the users of one particular tool (which used to be popular 20 years ago, but is one a decline ever since).
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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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That’s what happens when you don’t pay for it!
If the solution for the vulnerability is to update to a newer software version isn’t it by definition not a 0-day exploit?
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