Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

Mon Aug 30 20:12:10 UTC 2004

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, james edwards wrote:
> > Not true.  For those of us who host Akamai servers, we could download SP2
> > with no problems.  We did not need P2P, or MSDN.  In fact, I would be very
> > reluctant to trust a Windows update downloaded via P2P.
> Have you heard of MD5 sum ?

yep md5 made the news recently because it's been cracked:

http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-22-5314533.html
http://www.rtfm.com/movabletype/archives/2004_08.html#001055

-Dan