[cap-talk] Google Chrome, petnames, etc.

[Jed Donnelley]

At 02:13 PM 9/2/2008, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>...
>
>The initial release of Chrome is for Windows only, Linux and MacOS are
>planned.  You can download the source code here and check for yourself
>how they jailed it:
>
>http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/archives/chromium.tgz

Thanks for that reference.  I'm pulling it down also.

One thing I noticed is the Chrome automagically pulled over
my Petnames from Firefox!  That's nice.  Maybe I have an answer
to my need for Petnames.  I'll have to see how it works out.

Was Tyler waiting for us to notice?

> > 4.  The discussion of plugins (also starting on page 29 at the bottom)
> > suggests that dealing with them (running them securely) is an
> > unsolved problem.  The comic says that with some help from plugin
> > makers they can reduce the trust that plugins need.  Might this be
> > an opportunity for POLA?
>
>Obviously many plugins can make extensive use of the native OS interface.

and as obviously if plugins do make use of the native OS interface
then they run as a user and have access to user (including ambient)
authority.  The opportunity for POLA seems to be in reducing that
trust as the comic suggests.  The begs the question of what technology
Google (Chrome developers) will apply with the help of plugin
developers to reduce trust.

> > Who is the "I" in the above?  Is that work complete or did some
> > work on it get done but the project remained incomplete?
>
>The persons displayed in the comic book are real developers working at
>Google, although they have been beautified a bit (made thinner, etc).
>So the "I" would be that particular person displayed on that page in 
>the comic.

I wondered.  Odd that just one person would be so ("I") honored.  Anybody
know who that was (e.g. recognize the person in the comic)?

>Welcome to browser war 2.0.

Competition is always fun.  Let the games (war?) begin!

--Jed  http://www.webstart.com/jed-signature.html