metzman

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   by metzman 12y ago

   I think they made a deal that Yahoo search results would be provided by bing
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   by metzman 12y ago

   Chromium doesn't ship binaries to end users. Linux distros that have chromium build it from source. But I suspect that they are probably going to switch to clang as the recommend compiler for development.
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   by metzman 12y ago

   Ahh...that makes sense
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   by metzman 12y ago

   An attacker can use a privilege escalation attack to execute as superuser, so even though there should be no way to "gain control of the entire computer" without the admin password, in practice this isn't the case.
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   by metzman 12y ago

   I think the author is claiming that clicking on https://www.google.com/s;/ChromeSetup.bat;/ChromeSetup.bat?g... results in a file ChromeSetup.bat being downloaded, but in chrome and firefox the file downloaded is