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Hey, @beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange why are you illustrating your article about a 7-zip vulnerability with a photo of a computer that was discontinued 12 years before 7-zip first shipped AND CAN'T
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The original source of the image, used as stock art in quite a number of places, a photograph of a museum display taken by Théodore Poncet, is misleadingly labelled "a laptop on a table". M. Poncet's LinkedIn history says that in 2022 when xe took the photograph xe was working as a developer for Apple.
So there's that. (-:
https://unsplash.com/photos/a-laptop-on-a-table-QZePhoGqD7w
#BadJournalism #AppleIIe #StockArt
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