[somehnguy]

Yes. Whenever I email or transfer a zip via any method really I always put a basic password on it.

I've been bitten way too many times by dumb filters that pick some file out of the zip and declare that it is malicious. I also don't trust messenger apps to not pull my files out and do who knows what with them. A basic password prevents this junk 99% of the time for almost no effort.

It won't stop a determined system from cracking the password. But that isn't what I'm trying to defend against.

[saagarjha]

Gmail doesn't seem to like archives it can't open :/

[neltnerb]

Ah, the halcyon days of merely changing the file extension from .exe to .txt...

[jon-wood]

This brings back happy memories of a college (senior high for the Americans in the audience) computing teacher finding a friend and I had been writing irritating malware instead of doing actual work, and his only comment being “if you’re going to email that to yourself change the extension so it doesn’t get flagged for IT support”.