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by d--b 3126 days ago
Yes, that seemed strange to me too. First, there is no particular reason why it would affect the first bit of the comma more that the other ones.

Second, these strings are most likely concatenated on the fly right before sending them over to the server. So it wouldn't be a disk bit flip, it'd be in-memory, and for the life span of that particular string.

Third, if these were that frequent, then it means the _rest_ of the string, ie. the actual hashes, would be wrong, and that would seriously impair the service, wouldn't it?