full-disclosure - apache.org files are infected?

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Date: Fri Jul 22 15:49:25 2005
From: Marek.Isalski at smuht.nwest.nhs.uk (Marek Isalski)
Subject: apache.org files are infected?

>>The apr-1.0.1.tar.gz.md5 that I downloaded looks like:
>>apr-1.0.1.tar.gz: 0A 3C B9 11 EA 18 23 CF  A3 E5 86 38 92 77 47 05
>>which is odd. And then, 
>Why is this odd?
>>md5sum apr-1.0.1.tar.gz
>>0a3cb911ea1823cfa3e5863892774705  apr-1.0.1.tar.gz 
>They look identical to me

To Windows they are the same.

To Unix they are different.

To AOLers the lowercase one is hackers stealing their credit card
number while the uppercase one is a friendly greeting.

HAV A GUD WEEKEND DOOdz!!!1  :-)

Marek