Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob

Posted Jun 23, 2015 11:03 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob by josh
Parent article: Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob

It can't run arbitrary code, but the browser explicitly grants it permission to listen to the microphone and talk to the network! I'd call that a pretty big permission. (One that it obviously needs in order to do its job, but still.)