Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default

a year ago by cyrano to c/technology

Captchas I have read the instructions. I have searched existing issues and avoided creating duplicates. I am not filing an enhancement request. What happened? There are multiple privacy and telemtr...

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jonathan 22 points a year ago

I didn't see anything about a backdoor at the link.

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tias 37 points a year ago

It's weird link to this issue with that title, since the problem is only referenced in the discussion. The actual backdoor issue is here.

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fartsparkles 41 points a year ago

I thought it just allowede easier debugging, sorry

Fuuuuck. I wouldn’t eat a sandwich made by this person let alone a web browser. Forking and mucking around in a code base they clearly don’t understand. I get the feeling they’re one of those chmod -R 777 people.

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tias 20 points a year ago

I agree. That response made me lose any trust I had and I actually went to check that I didn't still have Zen browser installed from some earlier test run. He sounds like a script kiddie.

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freely1333 18 points a year ago

He was obviously very amateur by reading his posts on Reddit. Zen is more of a skin than a real browser, but I guess that’s essentially what a fork is at some point.

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