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When a news page doesn’t offer a feed

Yesterday TrueCrypt 5.0 was released. Unfortunately, they don’t use a feed to announce their news.

An old question of mine is: how to get noticed when a webpage changes? A simple but effective answer is: to check periodically its changes with something like

curl -s http://www.truecrypt.org/news.php | sha512sum

This is not a complete script but it can give you a good hint, though.

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