Re: Hackers spent at least a year spying on Mozilla to discover Firefox security holes – and exploit them

[ryacko@gmail.com (Ryan Carboni)]

I realize Chrome is basically a version of spyware or adware. It does
direct you to google by default.

But, it's the same dilemma with Tor exit nodes. At least with your
ISP, not just any one can offer you internet service. With a tor exit
node, anyone with a few thousand bucks could be running it.

Although what am I saying? I never paid a cent for Firefox.

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 09:59:14PM -0700, Ryan Carboni wrote:
>> No wonder firefox is seemingly more insecure lately.
>>
>> Only choices now are chrome or a text-only browser.
>
> https://thestack.com/security/2015/06/19/google-criticised-for-opaque-audio-listening-binary-in-debians-chromium-browser/
>
> Yoshino Yoshihito said in the report â??After upgrading chromium to 43, I
> noticed that when it is running and immediately after the machine is
> on-line it silently starts downloading â??Chrome Hotword Shared Moduleâ??
> extension, which contains a binary without source code,â??
>
>