Google snuck surveillance code into Chromium?

Blaise Alleyne at 2015-10-27T19:11:50Z

How did I miss this in June... http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/not-ok-google-chromium-voice-extension-pulled-after-spying-concerns/

And to Chromium, not Chrome...

I use Chromium as a secondary browser, mostly as a sandbox for Google/Facebook applications. But sometimes I get lazy and start doing a lot more browsing in Chromium if I don't have IceWeasel open. This radically changes my feeling of Chromium...

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@balleyne@identi.ca but what is to worry about? Problem found, problem resolved. Exactly the way this process is supposed to work.

Stephen Sekula at 2015-10-27T21:04:53Z

Apparently Google is a front for the NSA.

jrobertson at 2015-10-27T21:30:56Z

I don't think this was the way the process is supposed to work. Google sneaking something nasty into the free software version that's intended for the proprietary version, and it being discovered through the Debian bug reporting process after it's already been pushed into "production" on user's computers?

This radically changes my perspective on how Google views Chromium. While I'm not necessarily concerned about this specific problem, I'm very concerned about what this says about Google's practices with Chromium development.

Blaise Alleyne at 2015-10-28T02:28:01Z

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