Interesting comment from the thread discussing the download from that Google engineer responsible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9735795 https://news.yc

Interesting comment from the thread discussing the download from that Google engineer responsible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9735795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9735795 "The fact is that an end user should not care if software downloads a "binary blob" without running it. This is functionally equivalent to downloading anything from the Internet, a JPG file for example. Chromium downloads a bunch of things on startup, and nobody seems to mind. Just because hotword.nexe happens to be an executable blob doesn't really make a difference."