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Re: Mass bug filing: Cryptographic protection against modification



John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
>
> not include everything needed to generate a usable binary.  In fact, one
> could argue that such a thing is even less free than a plain binary since
> there is no way at all to make modifications: you can't even patch the
> binary.

What if they shipped the signature separately?
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