bofh wrote:

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> On Dec 5, 2007 7:15 PM, Tony Abernethy  wrote:

> > Claus Assmann wrote:

> > >

> > > Wrong.

> > >

> > > If someone cracks a website, then he can put up a modified binary

> > > and a modified MD5 checksum.

> >

> > This is silly. You mean that you get the checksums and the

> > associated binaries from the *SAME* website?

>

> You're probably being sarcastic, but in the case of the master site,

> it doesn't matter, because all the slaves probably rsync from the

> master anyway.

You know something is wrong when the checksum changes when

the files have not changed ;-)

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