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		bbcbasic on Jan 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are free proxies free? (2013) Wouldn't be hard for them to make your next executable download point to something with ransomware, but with the name you downloaded. Scary stuff.

kbart on Jan 5, 2015 [–]

MD5 sum check is intended to protect against such situation. I just would like to see statistics of how often it is actually used..

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