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Threw away Transmission as soon as I read this (even though I was running a old version), my trust is pretty much gone now, never installing it again. Shame b

by jariz 11y ago

Threw away Transmission as soon as I read this (even though I was running a old version), my trust is pretty much gone now, never installing it again. Shame because it really was a nice app.

fefifofu 11y ago
I don't even trust websites and emails, so not sure why you would trust a bittorrent client. I still use these tools, but with some some caution. Your level of caution is up to you. Other posters suggested things such as verifying checksum and virtual machines.
snom380 11y ago
Isn't it open source? So clone the last release version you trusted, build that from source and be happy?
jsn117 11y ago
flying the day after 9/11 was the safest time, I really doubt this sort of thing will happen again to the same software
- theinternetman 11y ago
  This would be true if they knew how it was compromised, they've been silent on that issue so far. The current version could be being compromised this minute for all we know.
  - mordocai 11y ago
    Not an official comment, but from other parts of the hacker news thread it sounds like one of the mirrors the main site redirects to was hacked, not the main site itself. The SHA sums on the main site where apparently unaltered. So it sounds like the only fault on the developers is trusting that mirror.
yborg 11y ago
I don't understand this attitude, the Transmission team responded immediately to the problem. There's no indication that this was the result of some problem specific to the application or its developers. Transmission was and remains my favorite torrent client on OS X, although I still like the torrent information presentation uTorrent had, and I still will run my old pre-adware 1.6.4 if I want more detail on a swarm. Given that older versions still work, it seems exceptionally silly to delete an old version because of a site compromise.
sleepyhead 11y ago
Do you trust the alternatives?
sergiotapia 11y ago
Same here, into the garbage it goes. What did you switch to by the way, Deluge? I switched TO Transmission because it was open source and supposed to be pure.

by jariz 11y ago

Threw away Transmission as soon as I read this (even though I was running a old version), my trust is pretty much gone now, never installing it again. Shame because it really was a nice app.

fefifofu 11y ago

I don't even trust websites and emails, so not sure why you would trust a bittorrent client. I still use these tools, but with some some caution. Your level of caution is up to you. Other posters suggested things such as verifying checksum and virtual machines.

snom380 11y ago

Isn't it open source? So clone the last release version you trusted, build that from source and be happy?

jsn117 11y ago

flying the day after 9/11 was the safest time, I really doubt this sort of thing will happen again to the same software

theinternetman 11y ago
This would be true if they knew how it was compromised, they've been silent on that issue so far. The current version could be being compromised this minute for all we know.
- mordocai 11y ago
  Not an official comment, but from other parts of the hacker news thread it sounds like one of the mirrors the main site redirects to was hacked, not the main site itself. The SHA sums on the main site where apparently unaltered. So it sounds like the only fault on the developers is trusting that mirror.

yborg 11y ago

I don't understand this attitude, the Transmission team responded immediately to the problem. There's no indication that this was the result of some problem specific to the application or its developers. Transmission was and remains my favorite torrent client on OS X, although I still like the torrent information presentation uTorrent had, and I still will run my old pre-adware 1.6.4 if I want more detail on a swarm. Given that older versions still work, it seems exceptionally silly to delete an old version because of a site compromise.

sleepyhead 11y ago

Do you trust the alternatives?

sergiotapia 11y ago

Same here, into the garbage it goes. What did you switch to by the way, Deluge? I switched TO Transmission because it was open source and supposed to be pure.