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Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian?



On 11.04.2017 10:22, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 04:22:40AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> could anyone please give me some insight, was the security problems
>>>> are here exactly ?
>>> Extension auto-updating is considered "phoning home".
>>
>> Isn't there a way to just disable part ?
> Disabling extension auto-updating is wrong from several perspectives,
> including the security one.

hmm, I'd actually feel better w/ manual update (on user request) for the
unpackaged ones (the packaged ones of course go via apt).


--mtx


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