The whole is "Don't be Evil" history thing is asked too often, frequently around things which probably aren't even borderline but this feels a valid case of calling them on it.<p>Deliberately exploiting a loophole to circumvent privacy controls is scummy behaviour, the sort of thing you expect from the industry's bottom feeders, not from one of the biggest companies in the game and certainly on that professes some sort of conscience.<p>You can argue its not really evil but it's hard to say its not another step towards that, and this time it seems hard to suggest that it's contractors or some peripheral part of the company.
I'd like to thank Jonathan Mayer and others like him that go through code and find these secrets and then release them for the public good. You make a great difference.
This makes me think that Google had ulterior motives when bundling flash with Chrome. Having the latest, most-secure version of flash is a win for Google, its users, and the web in general, but having flash installed allows for usage of flash cookies which can read your info across browser sessions -- info that they'd probably want.<p>To Chrome's credit, I believe it is the only browser that allows users to delete flash cookies.<p>* removes tin foil hat
a question why is no one concerned about the Safari hole in context of Apple?<p>Seems tome that you have more to worry about in Apple than Google as there many others using the same exact hole.