Hello,
On Sat, 05 Jul 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
It is the responsibility of the archive creator to follow the convention.
What if the archive was created from within the directory, ie, what if:
cd foo && tar -cf ../foo.tar *
Malicious tricks are also possible: For example, if I am extracting
something in my home directory, what if the archive overwrote .bash_profile
or .bashrc ?
(Don't believe me! Just test it out!)