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by pavel_lishin 5279 days ago
How do you trivially decide what's an encrypted file, and what's simply a highly compressed gzip archive?
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zachsnow 5278 days ago
You err on the side of "it's encrypted, and you're under arrest." False positives aren't the "bad guy's" concern.

Not particularly serious. A little maybe.

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ThaddeusQuay2 5278 days ago
In such a situation, the upcoming SOGA (Stop Online Gzips Act) shall provide a reliable decidability methodology.
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