Suspicious sha256sum for old rstudio build

RStudio IDE
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RStudio Latest Builds

Shows a sha256 sum of: 6ac3c336e4094835293a3fed8a4b5fedde1b5e2626d9838fed50693bba00af0e

  1. That is not in fact the sha256 of the file RStudio-2021.09.0+351.exe.

  2. That is the sha256 of the four letter word starting with f.

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Thanks for reporting this, it has been corrected.

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But, like, how on earth…

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@dmd We are looking into that. How did you initially discover it?

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Heh, I was googling that particular sha256 because a friend kept pasting it into conversations.

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Ah that makes sense. Thank you!