On: Chrome Is Bad

[rhencke]

Yes, since the cron script automatically runs as root on a repeating schedule.

If you want to see what it does:

    mkdir junk
    cd junk
    wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
    ar x google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
    tar xf data.tar.xz
    cat opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome

It's not nefarious - it's well-documented and explained.

It's just making a decision for me that, as an administrator, I need to be the one deciding instead.

[greatgib → rhencke]

That is very bad. With this they can easily and covertly target an ip and deploy automatically a rooted version to infiltrate a specific computer.

That looks like crazy theory, but tell me what they will do if the nsa request it?

[alacombe → rhencke]

% ls /opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome

ls: cannot access '/opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome': No such file or directory