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asmithmd1 on Dec 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The .zip file specification is flawed

Yes, this happened with a building built in NYC in the late 1970's:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t...

An undergraduate doing a class project on the building uncovered the flaw.

mmahemoff on Dec 14, 2016 [–]

"It was only after seeing the documentary that she began to learn about the impact that her undergraduate thesis had on the fate of Manhattan."

Amazing story.

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