Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
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Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
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Re: Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
#2From the comments on the debian bug, this appears to have been fixed in Chromium. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435
Re: Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
#3I 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 forcibly cooperate with NSA and friends)."
"while I haven't looked at the code, I wouldn't even be surprised if the downloading itself is done insecurely."
"Worse, chromium isn't the only such rootkit-downloader,... e.g. FF which secretly downloaded the OpenH264 blob."
Really if you condone this attitude then I can only say...well I won't say it but it isn't nice. Not only that, everyone seemingly ignores the: "Note that the binary blob is executed throught native client, which is not enabled by default" part.
You people are so beyond reasonableness I find myself defending Chrome/Google. I can't believe this.
Re: Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
#4I 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…
By 'some' you mean 'one'.
Re: Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
#5I 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.
Re: Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
#6I 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…
I think it's totally reasonable, from the Debian mindset.
Debian is an open-source zero-binary-blob distribution. You have to deliberately choose to install binary blobs, such as driver firmware etc.
It is the dismissive response which is not appropriate. The responder asserts that the blob is safe and trustworthy, how would anybody know?.
Re: Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
#7The binary blob is targeted at Native Client and so only runs in the google chrome sandbox. There is no security issue here.
Re: Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
#8The 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"
Re: Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
#9The binary blob is targeted at Native Client and so only runs in the google chrome sandbox. There is no security issue here.
But it's closed source, which is a criterion that Debian have historically regarded with a very high priority.
Re: Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
#10Another 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.