Both. GP knows Chrome for Linux exists but ignores that its need for auto-update doesn't play well with distros package management and it also statically-links or ships 3rd party libs. Clearly supporting diverse (fragmented) linux ecosystem is not easy at all.
> Chrome for Linux exists but ignores that its need for auto-update doesn't play well with distros package management and it also statically-links or ships 3rd party libs.
At least on Debian, it plays perfectly well with the Distro's package management. They use it to auto update google-chrome in preference to their roll their own on effort Windows. The same update system works perfect well on all Debian derived distro's. I'm not familiar with an rpm based distro to say for sure, but I imagine the situation is the same. So "fragmented" means supporting 2 very well tested distribution systems rather than rolling their own - and having the "take out all Macbooks" problems they did on OSX.
> they could provide consumers (and authorities) a way to trace their products back to their origins, a capability that already would have saved several lives.
Why would blockchain be required for that? In case of drugs and food there recalls are being done using batch number of day of production.
Suppose somebody named Mary wants to sell you a vape cartridge which has a serial number, and they also give your a website which accepts the serial number and tells you:
> Joe runs the factory and gave this cartridge to Bob. Bob have it to Mary.
The assumption is that if you buy it then the site will then say:
> And Mary gave it to aiCeivi9
What reason do you have to believe that the website contents are accurate or that people accepting vape cartridges from Joe Bob and Mary are still alive?
In the blockchain case, you can see that Joe Bob and Mary have sold thousands of these and that very few of the transactions are in dispute over authenticity. Also, rather than trusting some faceless 4.6 star rating you can see which of the people that supplied the rating are ones that you know, and which of those are ones that you trust. You can also see if you trust people who trust Joe Bob and Mary. This let's you make a more informed decision about the quality of the thing you're buying.
> First, the malicious app tries to determine whether it is being tested by the Google Play security mechanism. For this purpose, the app receives from the C&C server the isGoogleIp flag, which indicates whether the IP address of the affected device falls within the range of known IP addresses for Google servers. If the server returns this flag as positive, the app will not trigger the adware payload.
I can't believe something so simple worked so well.
I hat to fight with browser autocomplete in Kibana main search bar.
On the other hand I guess it is the same as right mouse button - I don't allow any site to capture that event since some abuse it.
Ah bless, I recall that (played at the time), I was fortunate to of had separate drives for programs and temp/swap to the OS and didn't have eve installed upon th C: drive, but knew many who didn't. That said, it was somebody who did the same kind of thing that tested the update and equally had no issue and it rolled out. Though fair play, they put their hands up fast and if needed, paid for peoples to get a tech to fix the issue for users who just gamed and unable to handle the minutiae of fixing themselves.
Just because you associate emails with spam doesn't solve the problem of every charity, business, church, school and group needing to communicate with large numbers of email subscribers. Like anything, bad actors make it worse.
> The only ones that are (negatively) affected are ...
Not true. GDPR imposes costs on every company. Specifically there are the legal compliance costs, software compliance costs, support costs, and that's if you're a "good guy."
