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Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago by SatyrSack@lemmy.one to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

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[–] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Wtf is a BLOB and why is nobody explaining it

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 27 points 2 months ago

Binary Large OBject

Basically any binary file, often objected to in open source repos because of the lack of source and 'openness'. See also the recent xz backdoor.

[–] Disregard3145@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Binary data. In the case of lz it was a carefully "corrupted" archive.

[–] spikespaz@programming.dev -1 points 2 months ago

Because you can look it up.