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Because they believe in statistically low probability of that happening.

What they don't accept is that it might hit them in the worst time possible, that a backup of such information will also suffer the same problem, that after an upgrade an important part of the new kernel might have the same hash as the beginning of Morissette's "Ironic" mp3 you already store, etc.

But come on - it's only small probability...



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