paco_sinbad

What about hash collision? You could write an obfuscator to keep appending useless code or comments to the payload to continually generate commit hashes until you get a collision with the same original hash. A lot of work of course, and the hash is so f-ing huge it might take a few thousand compute-years, but you know, hackers find a way. If nothing else, use the full 40-char hash to ensure that your attacker has to find the same atom twice across 10 moons.

It's a marketing ploy by ES.

They aggregated the data and published it so that the viral breach would spread their name around because all publicity is good publicity.

Just riffing of course.

Your own startup will probably be 12hr/7day until it's funded or otherwise self-sufficient.

It could be 9hr/4day, and you will do that until you run out of capital after 1800 work hours.

Isn't it interesting that minority opinions matter and must be treated equally, until your state has the minority of the population...