Multiple 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Discovered by Talos

I can almost guarantee you that WinRAR has worse vulnerabilities, they just haven't been patched (and aren't public knowledge).

I can 100% guarantee that you have ZERO proof, which means your statement is worth as much as anything in a toilet. Assumption != Truth. Almost all software has bugs, and not a new concept by any means, it's like saying the sky is blue. Prove it or STFU.

WinRAR also has worse performance for compression speed and compressed file sizes (if you care about that sort of thing).

In 2016, I care more about data reliability of my archives than speed or size, which is why I enable recovery volumes and 256-bit BLAKE2 hash on all of my RAR files, which 7zip doesn't support. Yes, these features increase file size, but I don't care, because my archived data is far more important than file size on my 8TB drives.

In 2016, archive compression speed doesn't mean jack sh*t anymore (seriously), because most of the time people multitask doing other things while an archive is being created in the background. Back in the MSDOS days, it was a big deal, because processors were slow and you couldn't multitask . It's not 1991 any more, thus a non-issue.

The one place where WinRAR is the best for archive size is archiving WAV files using the older WinRAR v4 compression engine, beause it had special algorithms for WAV. Why does WAV matter, well if you rip an audio CD to WAV, then archive the WAV files so you always have the original before it got converted to MP3 or FLAC. Still, with 8TB drives, this doesn't even matter to me anymore.

Oh, also it is shareware, rather than actually open

Oh my shareware caused the end of the world, oh my oh my, people shouldn't be allowed to make money writing software, oh my oh my oh my.

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