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by hawski 694 days ago
Binary files are full of null bytes it is one of the main criteria of binary file recognition. Also large swaths of null bytes are also common, common enough we have sparse files - files with holes in them. Those holes are all zeroes, but are not allocated in the file system. For an easy example think about a disk image.
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Ah, I'm a dummy. Of course these would be binaries getting chucked around.