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by eru 1264 days ago
> This is a general problem with binary files: they're hard to properly review. Having unreviewable files in a repository (binaries, machine-generated configs, etc.) is already a security problem; hash collisions would just be one (very difficult) way of exploiting that problem.

That's not a problem in general. Eg having a binary bmp in your repository is fine as far as reviews go.