Op 23-05-2011 17:40, Evan Martin schreef: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 AM, René Ladan <[email protected]> wrote: >> I gave a presentation during BSDCan about Chromium, the sheets are >> available here: >> ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/chromium-bsdcan.pdf > > For what it's worth, we take privacy seriously and our bad reputation > is not deserved. > It seems like I upset you, which was not at all what I intended. I use Chromium as my day-to-day browser both at work and at home.
> It is frustating to see you call out "spy code" in > the header of a slide. Too quickly chosen wording on my side. I think we can safely assume that the audience, which were mostly BSD developers and BSD affiliates, understands that the "spy" code is not related to that as found in malware. > Features you mention on that slide, like > geolocation, require the user to explicitly grant that information to > the site that requests it (geolocation uses an infobar, sync you must > first enable through the preferences, etc.). True. > The malware/phishing > blocking code goes to great effort to avoid sending information about > the URLs you're visiting. Features like that, where there is a > utility/privacy tradeoff, are clearly grouped together under a > "privacy" heading in the preferences. > > Here's more about privacy in Chrome: > > http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/google-chrome-privacy-whitepaper.pdf > > If you ever find any code that does something you find problematic > from a privacy standpoint, I would love to hear about it. > I have removed the problematic sheet from the presentation. René _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chromium To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
