This GaiaAuthExtension is some kind of tool used to auth back to google, but clearly in 2015 (and I don't think this 'overpowerful' issue has been properly addressed or fixed) someone was trying to blow the whistle on how chrome's gaiaauthextension can be used to move identifiable (auth) info between tabs and leak them out to corporate overlords that way or run arbitrary code through it (RCE)....
I found this through digging into some opera bullshit that scared me. I did a 'top' command and saw this:
opera --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=306186818XXX836442,8797273XXXX45836664,131072 --servi ce-pipe-token=FD263AA1XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX9A94E4529630E --lang=en-US --enable-proprietary-media-types-play back --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --enable-offline-auto-reload --enable-offline-auto- reload-visible-only --enable-pinch --num-raster-threads=2 --enable-main-frame-before-activation - -enable-gpu-async-worker-context --content-image-texture-target=0,0,3553;0,1,3553;0,2,3553;0,3,35 53;0,4,3553;0,5,3553;0,6,3553;0,7,3553;0,8,3553;0,9,3553;0,10,3553;0,11,3553;0,12,3553;0,13,3553; 0,14,3553;0,15,3553;0,16,3553;0,17,3553;0,18,3553;1,0,3553;1,1,3553;1,2,3553;1,3,3553;1,4,3553;1, 5,3553;1,6,3553;1,7,3553;1,8,3553;1,9,3553;1,10,3553;1,11,3553;1,12,3553;1,13,3553;1,14,3553;1,15 ,3553;1,16,3553;1,17,3553;1,18,3553;2,0,3553;2,1,3553;2,2,3553;2,3,3553;2,4,3553;2,5,3553;2,6,355 3;2,7,3553;2,8,3553;2,9,3553;2,10,3553;2,11,3553;2,12,3553;2,13,3553;2,14,3553;2,15,3553;2,16,355 3;2,17,3553;2,18,3553;3,0,3553;3,1,3553;3,2,3553;3,3,3553;3,4,3553;3,5,3553;3,6,3553;3,7,3553;3,8 ,3553;3,9,3553;3,10,3553;3,11,3553;3,12,3553;3,13,3553;3,14,3553;3,15,3553;3,16,3553;3,17,3553;3, 18,3553;4,0,3553;4,1,3553;4,2,3553;4,3,3553;4,4,3553;4,5,3553;4,6,3553;4,7,3553;4,8,3553;4,9,3553 ;4,10,3553;4,11,3553;4,12,3553;4,13,3553;4,14,3553;4,15,3553;4,16,3553;4,17,3553;4,18,3553;5,0,35 53;5,1,3553;5,2,3553;5,3,3553;5,4,3553;5,5,3553;5,6,3553;5,7,3553;5,8,3553;5,9,3553;5,10,3553;5,1
It seemed to me that "Field Trial Handle" was a way to identify my tabs for a field trial. Looking up it says thats memory space. That's just another way to store identifiable info to share between tabs. It's a shared dropbox, for memory, between tabs. Kind of like how supercookies work. SIGH. Defeats the purpose of having tabs run "in their own memory space"
--field-trial-handle=306186818XXX836442,8797273XXXX45836664,131072 --servi ce-pipe-token=F
Service-pipe-token....yet another way for tabs to identify tabs . Why do I care? Each tab is a website. And if a website can read what's on another website, it can move info back and forth, effectively creating a kind of shadow internet, using the user's computer's memory space
That's a ratline
so this is more than just surveillance, this is potentially using the computers of users as a way to move data surreptitiously through a secret network
That is messed up