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Sure it's plaster, but plaster can last a good while. Sufficiently new attacks don't come around all that often, and every hash has a risk of new attacks showing up.

fwiw, I wasn't too familiar with this usage, looked it up and sticking plaster is in the sense of bandaid here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesive_bandage

But agreed that it's a rather tougher patch than I'd originally thought, reading elsewhere in this thread.

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