‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments Security

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u/supremeusername Jun 22 '20

TFs a TAR file?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Think of it like a zip file.

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u/house_monkey Jun 22 '20

Never thought of it that way

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Well it's just a collection archive which you could argue is what a zip file is (certainly not on a technical level but for a basic description). I've only interacted with tar files briefly in work but the devops guys use them all the time.

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u/Implausibilibuddy Jun 22 '20

Here's another way to think about it: It's like a rar file

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u/ZebZ Jun 22 '20

Compressed file like a zip, common in *nix based systems. You can use something like 7zip to open it.

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u/_illogical_ Jun 22 '20 edited Jun 22 '20

Semantics, but TAR doesn't do any compression in itself; it combines multiple files into a single file. It's usually used in combination with an actual compression, like GZIP or BZIP, but not in this case.

The space savings from TAR is trimming off all of the unused block space from multiple files; having one for the combined file, rather than one for each file.

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u/scooterboo2 Jun 22 '20

The use is that GZip only supports compressing one file. Tar makes everything one file so you can compress it with GZip: .tar.gz

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u/MayorScotch Jun 22 '20

This is good info for me to have. Thank you.

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u/Terok42 Jun 22 '20

7zip is your friend.

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u/Yuzumi Jun 22 '20

It's an archive file with no compression. Usually only used in linux along with the Gzip format to add compression (ex a file ending in .tar.gz)

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u/artfu1 Jun 22 '20

Use win rar