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apexalpha
7y ago
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I always wondered what purpose these hashes shown on dl pages serve. If someone can hack your website to change out the .exe or whatever, surely they could also just change the hash displayed?
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jbk
7y ago
The issue is more a rogue mirror, than the main website being hacked. But yes, this is very true.
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