more accuracy around why to use ASAR

'protect' implies a lot more security than ASAR provides (none). I asked around #2374 to get some understanding of what ASAR does do for you.
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# Application packaging
To protect your app's resources and source code from the users, you can choose
To mitigate [issues](https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6960) around long path names on Windows, slightly speed up `require` and conceal your source code from cursory inspection you can choose
to package your app into an [asar][asar] archive with little changes to your
source code.
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should copy it together with `app.asar` when shipping it to users.
[asar]: https://github.com/atom/asar