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This is a blog devoted to my periodic musings on technology. I will post tidbits and tips concerning whatever i might be interested in at the moment with a focus on Security, Coding and the Chromium Web Browser.

What about free-chrome?
The free-chrome project is something that I have decided to do as a public service. I like the Chromium web browser but I distrust Google. They have shown dishonesty by advertising Chrome as an Open Source web browser when really it is not. It is based on Chromium which is open source but Chrome (Google’s browser) remains closed source. clever dishonest marketing on Google’s part to take advantage of the enthusiasm behind Open Source.

I offer free-chrome.net as a place to download a compiled binary of Chromium. I actually screen over the source code to make sure nothing funky slips in before i post the binary and it is also my intention to continue my very slow independent code review. I say slow because i’m not a *practicing* c++ coder (C99 is where it’s at and what i enjoy) and it’s just a massive amount of code; the chrome directory (that deals with the browser alone) is over six-hundred megabytes.

All releases compiled by me make use of the /GS /NEXCompat /SafeSEH and /DynamicBase switches for added security. You can read more about these switches and the added security they provide in this great security brief by Michael Howard Protecting Your Code with Visual C++ Defenses.