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Ah, I get it. Instead of relying on one guy, I can see that lots of different people who don't trust each other all agree that the binary hash should be X. Lots of people unknown to each other are unable to conspire to backdoor a binary.

Cool. Thanks for the explanation.

My first thought is that the next attack will be analogous to fake Amazon reviews. "This binary with the hash e99a12d388afa2fa5fdde8ed3bcbe055 gets five stars! After using 51fc8eff10b2fccec9890fe5d1b0cfd9 for years, I've realized that e99a12 is far superior in speed and robustness. I recommend you upgrade today!"



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