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		Alekhine on Aug 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, d... He means there used to be a time when people would mail binaries to each other more often, before they got too big and DRM'ed for that.

bawolff on Aug 7, 2020 [–]

There was also a time when alt.binaries was a thing (technically not email, but usenet is pretty similar)

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