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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wtf is a BLOB and why is nobody explaining it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Binary Large OBject

Basically any binary file, often objected to in open source repos because of the lack of source and 'openness'. See also the recent xz backdoor.

[–] Disregard3145 8 points 1 month ago

Binary data. In the case of lz it was a carefully "corrupted" archive.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Because you can look it up.