You're missing the point.
It's not that it might tell me the wrong version number.
It's that xz is not particularly dangerous as long as it's just a bunch of files on my disk. It's when you _execute_ the code in these files that it can do harm.
So don't execute it unnecessarily.
scy /
npub15p…khvce
2024-03-30 11:24:32
in reply to nevent1q…wzlq
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npub15pc5vt5kqgr60g389gl4n5zzuktz8wezz76klym9ew3puy3p8clqckhvcePublished at
2024-03-30 11:24:32Event JSON
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