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  1. CW: Techie question

    OK, I am aware that creating hashes with MD5 is not considered secure in the presence of Bad Guys, but if you're using it in a safe environment just to see if files have changed since you last looked, is it perfectly good enough? Or should I still be using SHA2?

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