From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:41:51 -0500   
   c186282  wrote:   
      
   > Each individual file could be zipped or not and then put through AES   
   > encryption. Gotta zip BEFORE encryption btw or you get big fat files   
   > - encrypted files are binary 'white noise' and zippers can't zip.   
      
   Did that back at another job, some years ago - the client IIRC was a   
   fleet-services payment processor, so we dealt with sensitive customer   
   info at fairly high $ amounts, but either their backend or ours was too   
   antiquated for more secure methods, so payment info was sent in a plain-   
   text spreadsheet that we zipped up, PGPed, and...sent over unencrypted   
   FTP :/   
      
   (Hoo boy were we not PCI-compliant at that place - we'd brought on a   
   guy for compliance years before, but he was one of the most dedicatedly   
   useless people I've ever had the displeasure to work with. When I got   
   laid off we *still* weren't compliant, and since he was axed as well I   
   imagine they never were. To nobody's surprise, the company folded a few   
   years later.)   
      
   When the client got paranoid about that setup, we ended up *printing   
   out and mailing* the spreadsheets o_O   
      
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