There I said it !

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlOP
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    6 hours ago

    Even a corrupt compressed files has a very different structure relative to plain text. “file” already has the code to detect exactly which.

    Still, failing on corrupted compression instead of failing on plaintext would be an improvement.