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NewsThis image shows its own MD5 checksum — and it's kind of a big deal Pin
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Denis,

This has actually been possible for around 15 years now. Not even sure why it made the news.

MD5 collision generation

PDF, DOC, ZIP and executables have already been publicly demonstrated. I would argue that images are easiest, you can use the EXIF block and leave the image data untouched.
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