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Memory corruption.

Right, it likely wasn't a bug if it is a single bit and this only happens once in a blue moon. A machine can only transmit perfect 1's and 0's for so long before getting one wrong.

But they're adding checksums right? Anyone see any holes in that?

Do you mean this?

> we're adding checksums to proactively detect corruption of system state messages

I dobut that means they're actually adding them together, they're adding checksums to the process to ensure data corruption has no effect. Or am I misunderstanding you?

They use MD5 in other areas, but not that particular message. So now they will. Do people call hashes "checksums" in a colloquial sense? no one actually uses a "check sum" literally any more do they?

Right, that's what I meant, 'adding checksums to the process'.

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