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raddikal

I remember a friendly member around here recently remarking that rustc is a high quality project, with lots of eyes on it and lots of effort put into it.

And then this shows up.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164348#issuecomment...

A bug as careless as can be. Relying wantonly on hashing for equality checking, without even wondering about the specific hash's collision probability.

> "Because Microsoft hates the world, they will show a "Windows protected your PC" warning when you try.

Yet at the end of the day, Microsoft is a Rust Foundation platinum member.