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$ shasum -a 256 Atom.zip 4614ec62feaea32392ad7f6b3a80534c8ad0c758ed210cabafcc86c5c49a49a1 Atom.zip
Thank you. Can anyone else confirm this?
$ shasum -a 256 atom-mac.zip 4614ec62feaea32392ad7f6b3a80534c8ad0c758ed210cabafcc86c5c49a49a1 atom-mac.zip
$ md5sum atom-mac.zip 5454bd3a8271c93f5225cd2b57cdab81 atom-mac.zip
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…
How dare they collect usage data to improve their free product!!!
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Well, I suppose I can try. While I understand that Github is a private body and that their site is, well, their site ... forcibly deleting someone's gist simply because they don't like that that someone has found a way around their invite process smacks of underhandedness. Will they suspend his account permanently as a result of this leak? Will he have his account limited in some other way, preventing him from having…
Like I said - I get that. Also, like I said - it seems underhanded that they just reach into an account and delete gists
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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...
> a bruteforce over the MAC space wouldn't take long Indeed, best supercomputers are running today around 10 petaFLOPS (= 10^16 FLoating-point Operations Per Second) and there are 2^48 ~= 10^15 possible MAC addresses.
The Bitcoin network might be a better comparison since it uses doubled SHA-256; currently it's at around 3e16 hashes per second, or 6e16 SHA-256 operations per second. That's enough to hash all possible MACs in less than a second.
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OS X only for now.
It is rather disappointing that github heads down the Mac OS path while they base their company around a concept which is rather strange to most things Apple - openness and sharing. Writing for Mac OS first also makes it harder to port to other platforms as it is a rather idiosyncratic platform. If they insist on pushing Mac OS AND want to be seen as a good free software citizen they might want to consider putting so…
Off topic: From Atom's FAQ, Atom is not going to be free. "We haven't settled on pricing yet, but you can expect it to be competitively priced compared to similar editors" Then why drop Sublime and move to Atom?
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How dare they collect usage data to improve their free product!!!
It doesn't matter whether it is free or not. My only aim was to provide information that might be relevant for some people interested in trying out Atom (admittedly I mixed this information with my personal position towards Google and the ever-present tracking aka surveillance) so that they know the implicit price of its usage. You are free to use Atom or anything else, but you should always have as much information…
I fully respect peoples right to privacy. I just wish those who frequent Hacker news were more accepting of the fact that privacy is a trade off; one which often comes at the expense of the benefits of sophisticated analytics.
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…
How dare they collect usage data to improve their free product!!!
And I think I have the right to refuse to be sold if there are better alternatives. They'll either have to step up their game (with FOSS) or lose me.