Comment by continuations
7 years ago
But how do you even tell something's not correct? For example in the article they had to manually examine the index and find out some words were missing. How do you detect that not on the hardware level but up on the software level?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...
Checksums
Just had a fun flashback to checksuming new builds of Windows media after manually burning/ before installing the build!