From owner-freebsd-chromium@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 23 19:12:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chromium@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C952106566C for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 19:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC9168FC1D for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 19:12:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg7 with SMTP id 7so2689121eyg.13 for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 12:12:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=pYbPCpPFu/2jEu/Uzzah2ZI9WpE7fh0mU4yjOCDydv0=; b=B1NwRTkErf8yy4UVZqw5xMH+k81zWn0FhVUtBrwwsyMM5UjPOGQlQ4q04ZiqaGf8yT URgq32624R/6A9K09/9HkrFvAxOMKMggt8D/dTb6vf4rIfIy3+XOuyX7PkPZdyAIlyk1 DuNHSmBD+qDSUAn+tjxoII6ZcRkFAwjWHSqL4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=HoQSCXZPuZz4Jc8eU4IXH7Duk4oEJskMkKTdp4yrs9t7mipLU+ZDSKckOAj3qp2kll Sb6gy8I6VVKopXUQxfErhI8pamlRV4uF8AT+/iYjzm1+19IaPmNSI2cdiIJQIZPizi7p 1UTc2t4P6agXDFRrmdho2x8KO3x0cBBH3PvpA= Received: by 10.14.2.27 with SMTP id 27mr913273eee.9.1306177968600; Mon, 23 May 2011 12:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.14] (ip18-43-209-87.adsl2.static.versatel.nl [87.209.43.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm4835365eee.15.2011.05.23.12.12.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 23 May 2011 12:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DDAB1AD.6070502@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 21:12:45 +0200 From: Rene Ladan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; nl-NL; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110430 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evan Martin References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: chromium@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chromium on FreeBSD presentation X-BeenThere: freebsd-chromium@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Chromium issues List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 19:12:50 -0000 Op 23-05-2011 17:40, Evan Martin schreef: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 AM, René Ladan wrote: >> I gave a presentation during BSDCan about Chromium, the sheets are >> available here: >> ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/chromium-bsdcan.pdf > > For what it's worth, we take privacy seriously and our bad reputation > is not deserved. > It seems like I upset you, which was not at all what I intended. I use Chromium as my day-to-day browser both at work and at home. > It is frustating to see you call out "spy code" in > the header of a slide. Too quickly chosen wording on my side. I think we can safely assume that the audience, which were mostly BSD developers and BSD affiliates, understands that the "spy" code is not related to that as found in malware. > Features you mention on that slide, like > geolocation, require the user to explicitly grant that information to > the site that requests it (geolocation uses an infobar, sync you must > first enable through the preferences, etc.). True. > The malware/phishing > blocking code goes to great effort to avoid sending information about > the URLs you're visiting. Features like that, where there is a > utility/privacy tradeoff, are clearly grouped together under a > "privacy" heading in the preferences. > > Here's more about privacy in Chrome: > http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/google-chrome-privacy-whitepaper.pdf > > If you ever find any code that does something you find problematic > from a privacy standpoint, I would love to hear about it. > I have removed the problematic sheet from the presentation. René