On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 13:55:02 -0700, Shelley <shelley@misanthropia.org> wrote:
Wow, this is exactly the kind of bullshit- and bullshit response- I'd expect from this duplicitous NSA asset.
I keep a seldom-used, older version of chromium on one of my debian laptops so I'll check for this. My webcam and microphone are physically disconnected anyway, but I still want to see if their spyware has infected my system. Fuckers.
Thanks for posting this; I've been out of the news loop for a couple of days.
In all fairness after reading some of the comments and the original Debian bug report it seems that the Falkvinge might have got a bit overly excited about this one. Regardless, the claim of the browser downloading a black box binary appears to stand, even if it was not activated in most or all cases.