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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • From the article about what is vulnerable:

    For Linux systems, attackers need the target to be using a vulnerable 7-Zip version while extracting an archive format that supports symbolic links, such as ZIP, TAR, 7Z, or RAR files.

    On Windows systems, additional requirements must be met for successful exploitation. The 7-Zip extraction process must have elevated privileges or operate in Windows Developer Mode to create symbolic links. This makes Windows systems somewhat less susceptible but not immune to the attack.

    So Linux users would have to scan for symbiotic links beforehand, and Windows users just need to never run with elevated privileges, or scan beforehand if they do (I’m assuming that elevated privileges means “run as administrator”?)





  • My guess, and confirmed by another comment, is that the ai only flags posts for review. Then the moderators have to manually check the post.

    Honestly, it’s not a terrible use of AI in my opinion. Considering posts practically never change, they really only have to scan each post once. The mod can either flag it as safe or remove it. They are probably just running image and text pattern recognition on previously banned posts to flag newly submitted posts.