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tamimiolast Wednesday at 3:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

I knew a powerpoint is basically a zip file when I was trying to crack a pptx file last year, the AI basically said “pptx file is basically a zip file, let’s do …”, when I unzipped it, turned out the password protection is useless, all assets and everything are in there unprotected, including the 3D models inside. And you can pack it to a file again, just like the protected one but with no password.


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grueztoday at 6:23 PM

>turned out the password protection is useless, all assets and everything are in there unprotected, including the 3D models inside

That's only true for the edit protection password, which obviously can't be implemented in a foolproof way, and therefore it's an honor system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_password_prot...

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NooneAtAll3today at 6:11 PM

is password also included along with the assets?