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Don't worry guys it's sandboxed (fedia.io)
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[-] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 7 months ago

Sandboxing does nothing for social-engineering attacks, which is what many of the malicious snaps were designed for.

And the thing that makes the Snap Store uniquely bad is that there's no human review. Anyone can throw up a malicious snap, and there are very good odds that it'll get served there. Even the Flathub, a community-run project, has human reviews before new apps get published. Canonical, despite having money and resources that community projects don't, can't seem to be bothered to take basic steps to protect their users.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, what’s important to note is snap just requires a web based submission process.

https://snapcraft.io/docs/using-the-snap-store

Flathub requires a PR in GitHub, visible to the community. Spammers know they will get caught opening PRs

https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/submission/

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