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Re:Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018) by kd913 on Friday October 25, 2019 @07:19AM (#21353842)
People could always use the snap versions of libreoffice/browsers and either limit access to the home directory or remove access to the network. It seems the easiest way of applying a Android permission based model to Linux.

Alternatively, there are also firejail profiles which could be used for restricting what these tools can do.

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Re:Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018) by panpanna on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:32AM (#21354313)
The snap version has some limitations but I think that is the future.

And just because we maybe can contain it, it doesn't mean libreoffice devs should be off the hook for reading private keys from my drive.

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