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BLOB already includes "binary". That's what the first B is for.
Sorry, couldn't stop myself.
No one means BLOB when they say blob, it's a backronym mostly for fun
Apparently that's only for blob storage (now "object storage), not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob
I had always heard "binary blob" said when it came to opaque code, but I see that blob is what is used to describe unexplained binary data as a whole in database lingo, so I'm willing to say your usage of it is probably more correct than mine here, assuming the binary data isn't an actual program (afaik there's no elf-file like characteristics but who knows.). 😇