Comment on Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug
PoliteGhost@lemmy.world 1 year agoYes. That splitting files was especially useful because emails used to have attachment size limits.
Comment on Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug
PoliteGhost@lemmy.world 1 year agoYes. That splitting files was especially useful because emails used to have attachment size limits.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No no no no
It was primarily used to post to USENET.
Back in the day, every byte of data was precious and bandwidth was insanely limited, nobody would ever email an attachment for that… which would end up doubling in size as it went through the pipes.