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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 (simonwillison.net)
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[โ€“] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's some truth to that, but bad actors have managed to slip things through in the past. It happened recently with xz.

I guess my point is that we put a lot of trust in strangers when we run any code on our systems. Open or not.

[โ€“] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

True. We can also not run code at all and be perfectly safe.

I wish there was a comparison. Number of 0days in open source and 0days in closed source for comparible projects and a measure for time to mitigate the 0days.