I was talking to my friend about this problem right after I fixed and he
pointed out that this behavior for the update-manager makes it a
security risk.  It makes us vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack.
Might I suggest that the update-manager perform a checksum operation
before it replaces these files with nonsensical data, that, in theory,
could be a man-in-the-middle attack.  It makes me very nervous to be on
public network, like my school's or a hotel's network like with Michael
Crane.

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