Google Gets Serious about Chrome Security on Linux

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 13, 2012

Google was a bit slow in the beginning getting its Chrome browser ready for Linux. That’s now changing as Google is now set to take advantage of an advanced Linux kernel feature that could well make Chrome on Linux more secure than any other OS.

Chrome 23 dev-channel now takes advantage of the Seccomp-BPF feature that debuted in the recent Linux 3.5 kernel

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Sean Michael Kerner

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