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by f1shy 480 days ago
I think the prob. is not so low. I remember reading here about a person getting a foto of another chat in a chat application, which was using sha in the background. I do not recall all the details, it is improbable, but possible.
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LOL nope, I seriously doubt that was the result of a SHA256 collision.
The probability is truly, obscenely, low. If you read about a collision then you surely weren't reading about SHA256.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/47809/why-havent-...