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by sktrdie 2117 days ago
I think it’s because with content addressable URLs, the URL is a hash and you can verify that the content never changes? But not 100% sure
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Right. But that only works for resources whose initial version is fully trusted (due to review or trust in its source), and which never change. Which doesn't cover a lot of the usefulness of the web.