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Smuggling files under Google's nose
This tale takes place at my office, where we use Google Mail/Chat for our internal communication needs. I'm pretty sure any dev in our situation has encountered that dreaded notice: when trying to transfer some zip archives containing executables.
With my neighbouring colleague, we decided not to give up and use our clunky company NextCloud or return to USB drive throwing monke when we want to transfer files. First joke try accompanied by a surely Google isn't that stupid spoken aloud: file extension swapping (e.g..zip->.png). From our failure with the extension swapping scheme, we inferred that Googleware must be detecting zips using libmagic to ascertain file types.
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