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I mean you could extract an archive you've downloaded to your filesystem and said archive could have funky file names and then you use this tool..

But I suppose it's not a very likely bug to have in this kind of tool.

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Or “they” could enter your house at 2 am, drug you and hit you with a $5 wrench until they get access to your files :)

Never understood this line of thought. Not everything needs to be super secure. Not everything is going to be an attack vector. No one is going to deploy this onto a production server where this program specifically is going to be the attack vector.

Memory safety is cool and all, but a program that effectively sums a bunch of numbers together isn't going to cause issues. Worst case the program segfaults

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