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    You have a directory name with non-printable characters. Try ls -bl chromium/Default and you may see something a bit different. Or ls -l chromium/Default | cat -vet. You could try an rm with wildcards and the -i option to be interactive and ask for confirmation. rm -irf chromium/Default/*TransportSecurity*. Commented Jun 14, 2017 at 4:06
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    Either that or you have a corrupt filesystem and need to run fsck Commented Jun 14, 2017 at 4:29
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    @muru, please move your comment to a response so I can hit the green arrow. fsck repair did the trick. The file got moved into lost+found, with proper permissions, whereupon it was deletable. Commented Jun 14, 2017 at 14:30