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Message-ID: <20040318181155.52587.qmail@web12821.mail.yahoo.com>
From: onestepto at yahoo.com.au (Paul)
Subject: Malware added to transmissions

Thanks to those who've expressed an opinion on the possibility of malware being added to a transmission in transit.

I didn't really have email in mind so a plain text interception/manipulation would not be required.  My query really centres on whether a data stream (such as a media file) being downloaded could be tainted by a compromised node so that the receiver gets an unwanted 'bonus'.  With veriviable files checksums should prevent this but what of files that do not have checksums?

one step at a time...

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