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Are packages from flathub always safe?
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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The general community is probably going to catch any issues that pop up extremely quickly. Like my main machines are all on whitelist firewalls residing on external devices. If any software tries to make odd connections, the connections will get dropped and logged. I wouldn't hesitate to report anything odd. I don't run sketchy proprietary junk for the most part.