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Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#62
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure about that - if it's on a publicly accessible URL on a site designed to generate public interest, it's their own fault it got out.

Their clear wish is for this to be invite only. I agree that their 'security' should probably better if they want to protec themselves against certain types of people, but your argument is akin to justifying robbing a house of its contents because it was only locked up with no alarm and you had to break one window to get in.

No, my argument is not akin to that because piracy is not akin to theft. Downloading the beta from a public URL is not depriving Github of anything or breaking anything of theirs, whereas if I broke a window to steal something I've left the owner with a broken window and deprived them of the contents.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#63
So, now that the zip file is missing from GitHub, some people are starting to upload it elsewhere. Can the people who got it from GitHub earlier post the result of running

  md5 Atom.zip
? That might help mollify the paranoid conscience.

(EDIT: or any other hash function for that matter.)

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#65
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure about that - if it's on a publicly accessible URL on a site designed to generate public interest, it's their own fault it got out.

Their clear wish is for this to be invite only. I agree that their 'security' should probably better if they want to protec themselves against certain types of people, but your argument is akin to justifying robbing a house of its contents because it was only locked up with no alarm and you had to break one window to get in.

Yet on HN there have been numerous 'security breaches' defended solely due to the fact that the data was accessible via a public URL and if they wanted it secured they should have done better.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#67
post #48

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also, why 'open'? It's asynchronous with the bash session, so the mv will fail.

Yeah, "cd ~" is quite funny, too, but maybe we should leave this guy alone now :-)

Please forgive me, oh great overlords of HN, for copying and pasting the contents of the original gist without bothering to edit it.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#68
post #63

So, now that the zip file is missing from GitHub, some people are starting to upload it elsewhere. Can the people who got it from GitHub earlier post the result of running md5 Atom.zip ? That might help mollify the paranoid conscience. (EDIT: or any other hash function for that matter.)

MD5 (Atom.zip) = 5454bd3a8271c93f5225cd2b57cdab81

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#70
post #63

So, now that the zip file is missing from GitHub, some people are starting to upload it elsewhere. Can the people who got it from GitHub earlier post the result of running md5 Atom.zip ? That might help mollify the paranoid conscience. (EDIT: or any other hash function for that matter.)

MD5 (Atom.zip) = 5454bd3a8271c93f5225cd2b57cdab81

$ shasum -a 256 Atom.zip

4614ec62feaea32392ad7f6b3a80534c8ad0c758ed210cabafcc86c5c49a49a1 Atom.zip

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