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30 Years of Section 230: Why We Still Need It for a Safer Internet

This month marks the 30th anniversary of a section of United States law that has been called “the 26 words that created the Internet.” 

How to Use ZIP and UNZIP Command to Create, Extract ZIP File in Linux

posted by Trend Oceans on Apr 22, 2023

Let’s see how you can use the zip command to create a zip file, add a new file to an existing zip file, list zip file content without extracting it, delete the contents of zip, and encrypt zip with a password for added security. Read on

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