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Oh wow, I always assumed he just defaulted to HTTP version of the site, but HTTPS was an option. But nope, there isn't even a version of the site served over HTTPS. In the year 2018.

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Yeah, that's pretty terrible. Seems like the only secure way to get a copy of 7-zip is to install it via Chocolatey or Sourceforge.

Since they get theirs from an insecure source it really isnt.

No, you can get them from the official Sourceforge project over HTTPS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/

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