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A comment on Linus on Git and SHA-1. Parent comment

Re:Linus on Git and SHA-1 by kzrdude on Saturday February 25, 2017 @05:16PM (#13734177)
This really should not be a problem since that's task #1 that a programmer's good font needs to solve.
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Re:Linus on Git and SHA-1 by cbr on Saturday February 25, 2017 @06:56PM (#13734693)
I often run into git hashes places where a programming font wouldn't apply, like URLs and web pages.
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Re:Linus on Git and SHA-1 by wongarsu on Saturday February 25, 2017 @07:17PM (#13734783)
>where a programming font wouldn't apply, like URLs

Any phisher's wet dream is a URL displayed in a font where l and I look the same. For anything that routinely displays URLs, font matters a lot. And any website displaying git hashes is likely to be programming related and have some code-font (good monospace or similar) in it's repertoir.

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