Life pro tip: always put the force flag first on any command line you write (that has such a flag), to ensure that it's the first thing seen by everyone (including your future self) reading that command line.
This unfortunately seems to be a little bit too likely to be a scam, read here for more information about what is and isn't actually legal in such deals:
In what way? It would make it entirely invisible that the archive file isn't just a normal folder, it would be possible to use it just as if it were. What would be unfriendly about that?
It's now been 18 years since the last time an employer paid me to write assembly, but it's only been a year or so since the last time I had to read assembly at work (in order to verify what the compiler really was doing).
Sure, but when was the last time you saw, say, a Python project using some third-party library instead of simply calling isnumeric() from the standard library?
There's a reason for these jokes always being about Javascript.
Everybody should get carnival.