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		cobbal on July 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Computer security 80% solved if we deprecate tech... Firefox too, and they show up as annoying extra files with weird unicode names if you download directly to a WSL drive.

nullindividual on July 12, 2023 [–]

Which makes sense as this is an NTFS Alternate Data Stream; so much like the resource forks of MacOS Classic, you'll see ADS files as separate on file systems which don't understand the structure.

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