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Re:Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018) by panpanna on Friday October 25, 2019 @07:14AM (#21353818)
I wonder if this happens on other platforms too...

I know that at least libreoffice on linux scans your files for some odd reason...

Re:Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018) by kd913 on Friday October 25, 2019 @07:19AM (#21353842)
People could always use the snap versions of libreoffice/browsers and either limit access to the home directory or remove access to the network. It seems the easiest way of applying a Android permission based model to Linux.

Alternatively, there are also firejail profiles which could be used for restricting what these tools can do.

Re:Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018) by panpanna on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:32AM (#21354313)
The snap version has some limitations but I think that is the future.

And just because we maybe can contain it, it doesn't mean libreoffice devs should be off the hook for reading private keys from my drive.

Re:Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018) by glitter1 on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:13AM (#21354569)
Do you have a source for this? I believe you, I just want to read about something this bad I can't find anything.
Re:Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018) by panpanna on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:17PM (#21359333)
About a year ago I enabled apparmor with a bunch of additional rules and noticed some odd denied file read attempts.

I asked around and people blamed it on some Java or pgp stuff. No idea if it's still in there, I can't see it anymore but I also may have disabled all libreoffice plugins.

Re:Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018) by NumberCruncher on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:08PM (#21357633)
Dropbox did the same on ubuntu