Changes to Remote Debugging Switches to Improve Security
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Chrome is improving security by changing remote debugging switches to prevent unauthorized access.
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Want to script Chrome for your users? Out. Want to import from or read their ChatGPT chats? Out. Want to ship them an app that does something Apple/Google-unapproved? Or that talks to or inspects other apps? Out.
It feels like Big Tech security teams are locking down software for yesterday's world – whilst each of them keeps and uses their own access – at a time when the opportunity to tinker with our computers is at an all-time-high.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45663810
[2]: If you'd told me in the early 2000s that I'd have to send every binary that'll run on someone else's computer to Apple first for it to not scare-screen them... at least SmartScreen/Chrome's approach are statistical and hash-based rather than having to receive a full copy of every such binary.