• utopiah@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      No viruses disguised as music, afaik

      How would that work? For games or software in general, something executable, I get it, but content beside mind blowing proof of concept, I have a hard time codecs can be hijacked so that such a payload gets to do anything via e.g. VLC or mpv.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        13 hours ago

        Back in kazaa/limewire times, search for any music would always return a bunch of .exe files, like Metallica - Fade to Black.exe. A lot of people learned the difference between file extensions the hard way