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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

Google.com pages found to have access to hidden Chrome API allowing hardware info such as CPU usage to be viewed

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Google.com pages found to have access to hidden Chrome API allowing hardware info such as CPU usage to be viewed

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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the `*.google.com` domains - tweeted about today [by Luca Casonato](https://twitter.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018), …

h/t @simon@simonwillison.net https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112757810519145581

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    including Vanadium?

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      10 months ago

      This comes from hangout_services/thunk.js

      I searched for hangout in the vanadium repo, no result, so it’s not patched there either: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium

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      Vanadium

      Just asked in their matrix channel.

      hybridstaticanimate:discord Vanadium did not enable this at build time.

      hybridstaticanimate:discord There is nothing to patch.

      hybridstaticanimate:discord Other browsers chose to enable this.

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