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EVERY PIECE OF SOFTWARE NEEDS TO HAVE AN ENTIRE COPY OF GOOGLE CHROME IN IT TO DISPLAY A BASIC USER INTERFACE, HAVING 10 SLIGHTLY DIFFERNET VERSIONS OF ELECTRON INSTALLED AND LOADED INTO MEMORY IS THE OPTIMAL SYSTEM SETUP

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

The question is, what kind of access do they get to your system by making the electron app? The wrapper is likely a way to gain more privileged access to your system then there webpage can and report back what it finds.