Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
Google&#x27;s increasingly cavalier attitude towards security is concerning:<p>1) Kids WILL use this to bypass parental &#x2F; school controls as soon as they learn about it<p>2) In some contexts (especially as high-stakes test settings, but also some military&#x2F;prison&#x2F;finance&#x2F;medical&#x2F;legal&#x2F;etc. settings) this IS a direct security risk<p>3) Given the embedded browser is not secure, if a lot of kids do this, it WILL lead to someone exploiting this, and machines being compromised and escalations<p>At Google scale, if 0.001% accounts are impacted by a security vulnerability, that&#x27;s still tens of thousands of people (you can do the math too). I don&#x27;t think engineers at Google quite have a perspective on what it means when their decisions (not just security) ruin thousands of lives.<p>What&#x27;s astounding is just how good Google&#x27;s security team was, especially in comparison, maybe 15 years ago. Now, it increasingly reminds me of the path Yahoo took.<p>Critically, issues build on each other and escalate. Most remote root exploits require overcoming multiple layers of security. Defense-in-depth is important. Google used to address issues when a single layer was breached, before they could combine into someone remotely rooting your phone. Now, Google only fixes security bugs only after they&#x27;ve combined into a severe remote exploit (which often means many devices are compromised before an update goes out).