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No one is arguing with the legal argument, there are a lot of legal arguments that most people don't believe should exist.

So using the law to defend yourself doesn't really apply here.

> Thousands of hash collisions would require prior knowledge of the values and a concerted effort to deceive. It would be more realistic to say that human perception is broken when looking at the media than it is to argue with the mathematical reality at play here.

This confidence is why my anecdote applies. That confidence is flat out scary when you hear people in law use terms like "impossible" or "virtually impossible" when speaking about things that are not.




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