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Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo... by JetSpiegel on Monday October 01, 2018 @06:25AM (#18111362)
- Change "a" to "а", hash changed - ... - Profit?
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Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo... by icebraining on Monday October 01, 2018 @07:46AM (#18111735)
The hash is just to identify the individual article, so it can be timestamped. Google would still use its existing algorithms to decide if the two articles are copies or not.
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Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo... by Natanael_L on Monday October 01, 2018 @10:46AM (#18112950)
The publication of the hash proves who came first (to the timestamping service). Content comparison can be done by other means than the hash.
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