[ale] md5sum weirdness on firefox

[Jerry Yu]

either a custom md5sum db, or a tripwire.  I use & prefer the latter.

You might want to have a nightly cron job run that builds a database of all
> the files, and then checks their MD5 hash against a known good one, chucking
> out an e-mail for ones that are changed and not ELF objects, or scripts
> outside of /home/*.  That way, you'll know the instant that a file changes,
> and you'll also know (in theory) what changes are okay, and what ones are
> not.  In that regard, you can create a "whitelist" of files that you don't
> need to monitor (databases, etc.) and that way anything something is changed
> that is not on that whitelist, you will know about.
>
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