Plugin to check MD5 sum on certain files

[Dan Stromberg]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:56, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> 
> >  I'm not opposed to using another method, it is just what Big
> > Brother had used.
> 
> A poor design choice isn't made better because people use it.

By the same token, antispam filtering, antivirus filtering, and
host-based printer page counting are "poor design choices" - they're all
fallible, and they're all "incomputable" in a strict computation theory
sense.

But if you go around telling people they should stop using these just
because they cannot do the job 100%, people are just going to laugh at
you.  Long and loud.

The only reason it isn't the same in the security world, is people don't
understand computer security well enough to laugh into oblivion, the
people arguing against doing the best you can.

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