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From: mjt on 8 Jul 2010 15:39 On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Clark Smith <noaddress(a)nowhere.net> wrote: > Chrome has been accused of being, among other things, spyware > from Google - some people report that Chrome calls home as often as > every few seconds, transferring goodness knows what kind of data. Chrome doesn't call home. > Can the same thing be said about Chromium? Since Chromium is > open source, this should be relatively straightforward to ascertain > for those with the necessary expertise - of which I am not one. Chromium doesn't call home. -- Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>>
From: Clark Smith on 8 Jul 2010 17:56 On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:39:33 -0500, mjt wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Clark Smith > <noaddress(a)nowhere.net> wrote: > >> Chrome has been accused of being, among other things, spyware >> from Google - some people report that Chrome calls home as often as >> every few seconds, transferring goodness knows what kind of data. > > Chrome doesn't call home. How do you know that? > >> Can the same thing be said about Chromium? Since Chromium is >> open source, this should be relatively straightforward to ascertain for >> those with the necessary expertise - of which I am not one. > > Chromium doesn't call home.
From: Sam on 8 Jul 2010 18:12 Keith Keller writes: > That's not really the point, of course. The point is that nobody > outside Google can actually verify what Chrome does or does not do by > reading the code, so the only options we have are to trust Google, or to > sniff our own packets. Sniffing packets is not rocket science. I'm sure that someone already tried that. And if they saw something nefarious, we would know by now.
From: Sam on 8 Jul 2010 18:12 Clark Smith writes: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:39:33 -0500, mjt wrote: > >> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Clark Smith >> <noaddress(a)nowhere.net> wrote: >> >>> Chrome has been accused of being, among other things, spyware >>> from Google - some people report that Chrome calls home as often as >>> every few seconds, transferring goodness knows what kind of data. >> >> Chrome doesn't call home. > > How do you know that? Well, maybe he captured all packets while browsing in Chrome, for a few hours, and got bored.
From: mjt on 8 Jul 2010 18:56
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 21:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Clark Smith <noaddress(a)nowhere.net> wrote: > > Chrome doesn't call home. > > How do you know that? Wireshark. -- Basic, n.: A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company. <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>> |