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Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare by Conan_Kudo on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:36PM (#18181006)
My understanding is that we still can't fully confine stuff using Electron (VSCode, Atom, Skype, etc.). Did that change recently?
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Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare by popey on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:56AM (#18182883)
Not true. The snaps you list are not classic by virtue of being electron. There's plenty of electron apps in the snap store which are not classic, but strictly confined. It's the default for electron apps built with electron-builder.
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Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare by niemeyer on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:44PM (#18181048)
I don't think that was ever true?

Docs: https://docs.snapcraft.io/build-snaps/electron

Example: snap info electron-quick-start

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Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare by Conan_Kudo on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:52PM (#18181084)
I thought the seccomp-in-seccomp thing would have messed things up...
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