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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by Joeboy on Monday July 16, 2012 @04:53AM (#4249882)
From https://github.com/tpurtell/socialbar/blob/master/chrome/con... :

    //fallback for running in chrome
    function md5(str) {
        return "e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0";
    }
Huh?
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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by _quasimodo on Monday July 16, 2012 @05:46AM (#4249982) 

  $ echo -n "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." | md5sum
  e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0  -
It seems to be a commonly used example md5 sum.
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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by halvsjur on Monday July 16, 2012 @06:31AM (#4250065)
Seems like the md5 function is only used to fetch a gravatar image (see ssb.js):

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffadd...

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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by ritonlajoie on Monday July 16, 2012 @05:16AM (#4249922)
What's even stranger is that : https://www.google.fr/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=17&source...
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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by devmach on Monday July 16, 2012 @10:29AM (#4250836)
Seems like there is nothing new under the sun.

http://xkcd.com/221/

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