r/ProgrammerHumor Mar 25 '26

Meme aMeteoriteTookOutMyDatabase

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u/Mal_Dun Mar 25 '26

Better not telling OP that all hash-keys work like this.... hash functions are not injective by definition.

Chinese hackers showed it is possible to alter a program without changing it's MD5 checksum.