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Google Open Sources Updater

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

Jamie noticed the news that Google Update is now Open Source. The article acknowledges the privacy and security concerns of an application that is always running in the background of your machine, and authorized to install new software. And Google made the logically obvious conclusion that releasing the source code would alleviate those concerns.

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  1. For the love of god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Someone add a feature to turn it off completely.