Yes. That’s what allows Unix legends like this: https://www.ee.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html
Sorry thought he wanted to play emulators from his 1070 rig.
Sunshine and Moonlight are what you want instead.
To waste everyone’s time and make everyone look in the wrong direction while they do something terrible. To give their people something to point to when looking for examples of “nothingburgers”.
Sure. Whether they’re effective and actually able to execute is another question.
A simple way might simply be to put an actual executable in the file instead, and when a user double clicks to open it it’ll run instead. Or there’s stuff to hide in metadata that could exploit particular players, or even some OS preview systems, and get execution that way.
But……really pretty unlikely. Possible definitely, but you’d have to go through a lot of effort to get hit by something.
my first lemmy post and it’s to bitch about netflix
We switched from the Premium plan to the Basic plan last month when they started enforcing the IP sharing thing. Looks like we did it just in time. If they get rid of this, guess it’s back to pirating.
V.42bis was the shit