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		RexRollman on Sept 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UTorrent.com compromised, malware added to install... If I recall correctly, Google is facing a patent lawsuit over the Courgette technology. I don't remember if the complainant was a patent troll or not.

itsnotvalid on Sept 14, 2011 | [–]

Whatever the outcome would be, that is enough to stop people from using this piece of open source software to provide safer updates.

morsch on Sept 14, 2011 | | [–]

As stated above, courgette doesn't provide safer updates, just smaller ones. It's just a really smart executable binary diff. Signing the update is an orthogonal issue.

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