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That's why people invented peer review. You cannot read all the code of all the extensions you use, and if you are 'regular user', you shouldn't, but you trust
by snaky 8y ago
That's why people invented peer review.
You cannot read all the code of all the extensions you use, and if you are 'regular user', you shouldn't, but you trust some power users, researchers, developers who read the code of particular version of particular extension.
All that is needed is some infrastructure for that. You could even tune the percentage of people you trust who audited the new version of extension to mark it automatically updated for you.
That's not actually have to be anonymous audit process, most of the people in security industry have names, and you know, they actually use extensions too, so they usually read the code anyway. All we need is the checkbox where they could 'ack' the extension.
- hollerith 8y agoTo get the arrangement you describe would require Google to voluntarily give up some of its current control over Chrome (or for Chrome users to switch to another browser).