Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture
Oops! I seem to have missed sending this to the list instead of Andrew. On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 22:03:45 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 08:31:51 you wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:08:01 +0100 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 23 Jun 2015 11:54:02 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:26:31 -0500, Dale wrote: Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess they did do this then. This may be the first time I checked into a story from that site and it be true. It seems google did sort of sneak some code in there. o_O There is a now a USE flag to specifically enable this. It defaults to disabled but if you previously emerged chromium before the flag as added, you will still have it. Using --newuse will cause a world update to re-emerge chromium, but if you use --changed-use it doesn't, so re-emerge chromium if you want to get rid of this. What is the new USE flag and does it also apply to 43.0.2357.65? The flag is USE=hotwording, it applies to 45.0.2431.0 and later versions. Please note that this flag disables autoload of hotwording nacl plugin, so if one had earlier chromium versions installed, one will still have this plugin installed on a system. In order to remove already installed plugin one have to delete the following directory: ~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/lccekmodgklaepjeofjdjpbminllajkg See also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552298 Best regards, Andrew Savchenko Thank you Dale for bringing this to our attention and thank you Andrew for the bug and hint to remove the already downloaded blob. I am emerging 43.0.2357.130 which has the USE flag -hotwording% unset as a default. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 23 Jun 2015 11:54:02 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:26:31 -0500, Dale wrote: Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess they did do this then. This may be the first time I checked into a story from that site and it be true. It seems google did sort of sneak some code in there. o_O There is a now a USE flag to specifically enable this. It defaults to disabled but if you previously emerged chromium before the flag as added, you will still have it. Using --newuse will cause a world update to re-emerge chromium, but if you use --changed-use it doesn't, so re-emerge chromium if you want to get rid of this. What is the new USE flag and does it also apply to 43.0.2357.65? https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435 It's mentioned in post 4 first. I don't know if Gentoo is using the same name or not tho. It should be a start at least. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture
On Tuesday 23 Jun 2015 11:54:02 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:26:31 -0500, Dale wrote: Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess they did do this then. This may be the first time I checked into a story from that site and it be true. It seems google did sort of sneak some code in there. o_O There is a now a USE flag to specifically enable this. It defaults to disabled but if you previously emerged chromium before the flag as added, you will still have it. Using --newuse will cause a world update to re-emerge chromium, but if you use --changed-use it doesn't, so re-emerge chromium if you want to get rid of this. What is the new USE flag and does it also apply to 43.0.2357.65? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:08:01 +0100 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 23 Jun 2015 11:54:02 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:26:31 -0500, Dale wrote: Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess they did do this then. This may be the first time I checked into a story from that site and it be true. It seems google did sort of sneak some code in there. o_O There is a now a USE flag to specifically enable this. It defaults to disabled but if you previously emerged chromium before the flag as added, you will still have it. Using --newuse will cause a world update to re-emerge chromium, but if you use --changed-use it doesn't, so re-emerge chromium if you want to get rid of this. What is the new USE flag and does it also apply to 43.0.2357.65? The flag is USE=hotwording, it applies to 45.0.2431.0 and later versions. Please note that this flag disables autoload of hotwording nacl plugin, so if one had earlier chromium versions installed, one will still have this plugin installed on a system. In order to remove already installed plugin one have to delete the following directory: ~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/lccekmodgklaepjeofjdjpbminllajkg See also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552298 Best regards, Andrew Savchenko pgpnWFEhA3sVN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:26:31 -0500, Dale wrote: Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess they did do this then. This may be the first time I checked into a story from that site and it be true. It seems google did sort of sneak some code in there. o_O There is a now a USE flag to specifically enable this. It defaults to disabled but if you previously emerged chromium before the flag as added, you will still have it. Using --newuse will cause a world update to re-emerge chromium, but if you use --changed-use it doesn't, so re-emerge chromium if you want to get rid of this. I use Seamonkey and Firefox. I tried that thing once and I didn't like it. I just saw this posted on a social site I'm on and the site the article is on sometimes has good stories but a lot of the time, they are questionable at least. I just wanted to see if it was somewhat accurate before folks started going all goofy over it. It seems each distro is patching a fix for this. I don't know when people are going to learn that enabling something like this by default and not mentioning it to the users is going to create a dust storm. A lot of people really watch for things like this and they get upset when it happens. This is why I don't have a microphone or camera on my puter and never have. I most likely, never will. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture
On 15-06-23 at 03:06, Dale wrote: Howdy, Is this for real? I question the source and figure with all the Linux geeks we have here, someone here would know about this story and if it is real or not. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/06/got-chrome-google-just-silently-downloaded-this-onto-your-computer-3173880.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/TEMP-0786909-A21526 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435 Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. -- Simon Thelen
[gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture
Howdy, Is this for real? I question the source and figure with all the Linux geeks we have here, someone here would know about this story and if it is real or not. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/06/got-chrome-google-just-silently-downloaded-this-onto-your-computer-3173880.html Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture
Simon Thelen wrote: On 15-06-23 at 03:06, Dale wrote: Howdy, Is this for real? I question the source and figure with all the Linux geeks we have here, someone here would know about this story and if it is real or not. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/06/got-chrome-google-just-silently-downloaded-this-onto-your-computer-3173880.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/TEMP-0786909-A21526 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435 Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess they did do this then. This may be the first time I checked into a story from that site and it be true. It seems google did sort of sneak some code in there. o_O Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:26:31 -0500, Dale wrote: Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess they did do this then. This may be the first time I checked into a story from that site and it be true. It seems google did sort of sneak some code in there. o_O There is a now a USE flag to specifically enable this. It defaults to disabled but if you previously emerged chromium before the flag as added, you will still have it. Using --newuse will cause a world update to re-emerge chromium, but if you use --changed-use it doesn't, so re-emerge chromium if you want to get rid of this. -- Neil Bothwick Time is an illusion but never so much as when you're using a modem. pgpXGLFdjYsbx.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
