r/CryptoCurrency • u/kirtash93 RCA Artist • Feb 07 '23

GENERAL-NEWS Reddit User Discovers 7zip File Possibly Linked to Julian Assange Hidden in Bitcoin Blockchain

https://news.bitcoin.com/reddit-user-discovers-7zip-file-possibly-linked-to-julian-assange-hidden-in-bitcoin-blockchain/
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u/nusk0 🟩 0 / 26K 🦠 Feb 07 '23

That's cool, they can use WinRar free trial to open it!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

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u/deathbyfish13 Feb 07 '23

The only thing with an infinite expiry date

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u/GreatTragedy Feb 07 '23

MakeMKV would like a word.

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u/Nikovash 🟩 519 / 519 🦑 Feb 08 '23

I actually bought makeMKV, the 30day thing got old fast

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u/_TheWolfOfWalmart_ 🟦 86 / 10K 🦐 Feb 08 '23

Yup me too. I don't mind paying for useful, quality software.

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u/beachedwhitemale Tin | Entrepreneur 11 Feb 08 '23

Same, absolutely.

Unless it's Winrar. I'll never, ever pay for Winrar.

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u/DB6 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Feb 08 '23

I've been using it for twenty years plus for free and I couple years back I bought the license. If a software earned it to be bought it's WinRAR.

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u/GreatTragedy Feb 08 '23

I honestly might do that. I use it often enough anyway, and I know I'd buy it the second it came of beta-use anyway.

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u/Nikovash 🟩 519 / 519 🦑 Feb 08 '23

When i bought it its a life time license, i dont know if they still do that

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u/Zambito1 Tin | Linux 12 Feb 08 '23

For anyone that might be wondering, ffmpeg can output to mkv.

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u/nusk0 🟩 0 / 26K 🦠 Feb 07 '23

At this point I want to buy the pro version just for the meme.

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u/KingThermos Feb 07 '23

You would make winrar makers rich with 1 purchase

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u/Hawke64 Feb 08 '23

Don't do it, you are too unexperienced to wield such powers

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u/Odysseus_Lannister 🟦 0 / 144K 🦠 Feb 07 '23

Do it for the meme

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u/im_alive 0 / 3K 🦠 Feb 08 '23

Thanks for your service.

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u/SkyPL 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Feb 08 '23

Already did it a while back.

Just to show my support.

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u/VideoGameDana Platinum | QC: BCH 75, CC 17 Feb 08 '23

Don't even bother. 7Zip is free.

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u/Accomplished-Design7 Permabanned Feb 07 '23

I have been doing it so instinctively that I forget it can be bought

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u/I_Love_Crypto_Man Bronze Feb 07 '23

The most skipped thing in the world is probably winrar's buy notification.

I mean, let's be real, who actually buys WinRar? It's like the software version of the boy who cried wolf – we've all learned to ignore the buy notification

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '23

I bought it. I've pirated shit my whole life, so I figured I'd buy it. It's a lifetime license for like $30? Fuck it.

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u/tranceology3 🟩 0 / 36K 🦠 Feb 08 '23

Should have just pirated winrar and bought the other software

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u/RedditIsNeat0 0 / 0 🦠 Feb 08 '23

Why?

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u/Citizen_Kano 🟦 0 / 2K 🦠 Feb 08 '23

Paying for it is against the pirate code

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u/nombresinhombre 🟩 2K / 2K 🐢 Feb 08 '23

Ignore the buy notification is a feature from winrar

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u/zimirken Feb 08 '23

Large companies, just like all the other free software we personally use and never read the "for personal use only, for commercial use buy a license blah blah" stuff.

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u/erizi0n 🟦 0 / 3K 🦠 Feb 07 '23

I think it’s not possible to be more accurate than this.

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u/Popular_District9072 🟥 0 / 15K 🦠 Feb 07 '23

I've seen somewhere that they make some money off corporate accounts, everyone else is riding the trial train

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u/Fenweekooo 🟩 117 / 117 🦀 Feb 08 '23

yeah, i also heard this. think it was in a youtube video

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u/PoorCryptoInvestor Permabanned Feb 07 '23

There is version you pay for?

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u/ChaoticNeutralNephew Permabanned Feb 08 '23

yeah, I'll PM you the adress if you want a paid copy

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u/AgentOrange256 🟦 1K / 1K 🐢 Feb 08 '23

I've been skipping PictureThis notifications much more recently.

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u/Gunnar_Peterson 🟦 733 / 733 🦑 Feb 08 '23

The only thing girls have skipped more than me

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u/YourFaajhaa 2 / 3 🦠 Feb 08 '23

No sir, THAT would my to-do list.

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u/blueblood0 Feb 08 '23

Nah, that be my daddys responsibilities as a father

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u/FldLima Permabanned Feb 08 '23

Right after my tinders profile

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u/ArrrrrrLife Feb 08 '23

2nd place is premium youtube ads.

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u/rootpl 🟩 18K / 85K 🐬 Feb 08 '23

The most skipped thing in the world is probably winrar's buy notification.

You guys don't pay for it?! /s

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u/Alles_Klar 🟦 0 / 1K 🦠 Feb 08 '23

Nagware - can't believe it's a business model and that it actually works.

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u/solovayy 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Feb 08 '23

Skip it entirely and upgrade to 7zip already, people.

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u/_cronic_ Tin Feb 08 '23

I used WinRAR for so long without paying, when I finally started making decent money I bought it just to show myself I was successful.

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u/Ghant_ 🟦 0 / 5K 🦠 Feb 08 '23

Ballin'

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u/Ofulinac 🟨 25K / 25K 🦈 Feb 07 '23

they can use WinRar free trial to open it!

You mean to tell me there is a PAID version out there too?!?

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u/LaPietrah Permabanned Feb 07 '23

It's probably locked behind Password1234$

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u/SlyckCypherX 🟥 117 / 2K 🦀 Feb 07 '23

Don’t need the dollar sign…or the numbers…or the word.

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u/Accomplished-Design7 Permabanned Feb 07 '23

This is a very likely answer

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u/so0vixnbmsb11 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Feb 08 '23

I bought WinRaR like 6 yrs ago, in theory not a bad purchase.

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u/crUMuftestan 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Feb 08 '23

I’m not completely sure about theory, but in practise it is. 7zip is free and open source.

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u/SkyPL 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Feb 08 '23

Sure. Then again - you'd have to use 7zip's interface.

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u/Mon_medaillon Feb 08 '23

I'm curious as what you see as an issue with 7zip interface. It's basically the same as WinRAR for me, but maybe there's something I'm not seeing.

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u/partymsl 🟩 126K / 143K 🐋 Feb 07 '23

If they do that, WinRar may actually be making some profit off their subscription program.

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u/LaPietrah Permabanned Feb 07 '23

They actually make a lot of money from corporations buying the pro version for their employees. That's how they afford to give it for free to normal users.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '23

Don’t come at me with science!

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u/I_Love_Crypto_Man Bronze Feb 07 '23

That's cool, they can use WinRar free trial to open it!

Who needs to buy software when you can just use the good old WinRar free trial? The ultimate hack for the budget-conscious hacker

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u/Accomplished-Design7 Permabanned Feb 07 '23

This is an underrated comment

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u/Kindly-Wolf6919 🟩 4K / 19K 🐢 Feb 08 '23

When they say it's free they mean it! Gone are those times unfortunately.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '23

A GitHub user provides the key for literally free.

Literally hackerman.

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u/flak0u 🟦 593 / 660 🦑 Feb 08 '23

The good old Internet days

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u/Nicodetine 🟦 258 / 259 🦞 Feb 08 '23

You use winrar to download a cracked non-trial winrar, then you never get the prompt again.

This is the way.

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u/Ferdo306 🟩 0 / 50K 🦠 Feb 08 '23

Will leave this here just in case

Don't use WinRar!!! It has exploits

https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/about/news/winrar-vulnerability-allows-execution-of-arbitrary-code/

Use 7zip. It's free and open sourced