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The binary blob is targeted at Native Client and so only runs in the google chrome sandbox. There is no security issue here.
"Don't worry, it's running as restricted windows user, there is no way it could possibly ever... oh"
From the comments on the debian bug, this appears to have been fixed in Chromium. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435
Another reason to switch to Iridium Browser. It has Google search disabled by default and even if you switch search to Google, Voice search and hot-words stay off until you manually enable it. https://iridiumbrowser.de/
From the comments on the debian bug, this appears to have been fixed in Chromium. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435
I advise not reading that bug, some of the later comments will give you brain cancer. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909#51 Downvotes? So you agree with this? "I seriously consider the good faith of an such upstream which does these kinds of things" "But basically secretly downloading it leads to the question of possible malicious intent (and everyone knows that Google&Co. do voluntarily and/or…
This guy is actually perfectly right. Google doesn't do thing like that by accident. I'm glad there are some sharp guys around to disclose such potentially malicious behavior.
But the tinfoil hattery is completely baseless.
From the comments on the debian bug, this appears to have been fixed in Chromium. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435
I advise not reading that bug, some of the later comments will give you brain cancer. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909#51 Downvotes? So you agree with this? "I seriously consider the good faith of an such upstream which does these kinds of things" "But basically secretly downloading it leads to the question of possible malicious intent (and everyone knows that Google&Co. do voluntarily and/or…
This guy is actually perfectly right. Google doesn't do thing like that by accident. I'm glad there are some sharp guys around to disclose such potentially malicious behavior.
It could theoretically be a rootkit, but without any evidence to support it this is like calling someone a murderer because he went to the same high school as a murderer.
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This guy is actually perfectly right. Google doesn't do thing like that by accident. I'm glad there are some sharp guys around to disclose such potentially malicious behavior.
Do what by accident? Of course the intent was to include the blob. If Debian wants to get rid of it it should patch Chromium or request it to be made configurable (which is what happened). But the tinfoil hattery is completely baseless.
Another reason to switch to Iridium Browser. It has Google search disabled by default and even if you switch search to Google, Voice search and hot-words stay off until you manually enable it. https://iridiumbrowser.de/