[Cryptography] Sony finding SHA1 collisions?

[Peter Gutmann]

"Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton at acm.org> quotes:

>This article seems to be saying that Sony has been using SHA1 collisions to
>attack BitTorrent:

So an organisation that doesn't notice attackers stealing 100TB of their
corporate files knows how to create hash collisions in SHA-1?  This looks like
another candidate for a Tui (NZ brewery) ad, along the lines of these ones:

http://rebloggy.com/post/beer-new-zealand-kiwi-yeah-right-ad-tui-campaign-alcahol/76500400895

Peter.