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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.