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7zip now allows to extract installers

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OldGrumpy#
I'm sorry for the late post but I was very busy during the last weeks (only getting slightly better now...). As many before already stated, security by obscurity just doesn't work. I thought "cool idea" when I first read about the new feature in 7zip, simply because it already happened to me that I accidentally deleted install-related stuff accidentally. It would be a great help if I could recover those without writing my own unpacker. Unfortunately, I'll now have to do exactly that.
And for stuff like ClockLock: There are end-user friendly tools which enable everybody to kill such poor attempts within a mere 10 seconds. I won't name them, for obvious reasons.
Face it, fellows: Everything that runs on a machine, can be cracked. And NSIS isn't about security, it's an INSTALLER. If you feel you need to protect your incredible amount of intellectual property in your installer, either use encryption or keep it to yourself. Period.

@Anoter voice: Oh please, UPX is not a crypter. Unpacking UPX takes about 5 seconds. And even for the derivative crypting variants, fully automatic unpackers are available. Please do your homework before suggesting inappropriate tools for a job 🙂