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Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

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Post by userbinator »

sveme wrote: post #35

From the README: > 4. To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics]( https://github.com/atom/metrics ) for details. That is quite horrible in my opinion. Do I want an application on my computer that constantly sends information to Google and Github? What kind of information is it sending? (from the link) Collected Data + A unique identifier that is generated by co…

That is disturbing. I've had *.google-analytics.com nullrouted ever since I heard of GA.

> SHA-1 of the machine's MAC address.

There's only 2^48 MAC addresses, there are 2^160 SHA-1 hashes. With computing power at where it is today, a bruteforce over the MAC space wouldn't take long.

On the other hand, spoofing the data is also an alternative way of opposition...

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

kayoone wrote: post #47
danielhunt wrote: post #24

Does anyone feel it's very, very wrong of Github to take down that gist?

Imo its perfectly reasonable to not want your new product leak out before official release for numerous reasons, like it not being finished/ready for example.

And for the reasons they give in their FAQ:

This beta invite program is designed to let us carefully control how many new people get access to Atom each day so we can provide timely bug fixes and support responses.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

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Post by agumonkey » 

    $ curl -L https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download 
    {"message":"Not Found"}
    
    $ curl -sLI https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download 
    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
    Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:23:50 GMT
    Set-Cookie: request_method=HEAD; path=/; secure
    Status: 404 Not Found
    Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
    X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
    X-Request-Id: f69dc125-390e-40cc-969c-586a04dfa65d
    X-Runtime: 0.014472
    X-Ua-Compatible: chrome=1
    X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block
    Connection: keep-alive
I guess the game is over
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