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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

jordaneldredge.com

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Technology@beehaw.org · 5 months ago

I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes

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The author touches on this near the beginning-

Winamp skins are actually just zip files with a different file extension

So they’re treating them like archives and extracting them

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