Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
by j16sdiz on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:04AM
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Scroll down that page.
The ui integration problem is real
Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
by gridlockd on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:20AM
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I'm not saying that any of these problems aren't real. Many applications on Windows and some on MacOS disregard theme settings as well. That's not a security issue though, and it's fixable.
...and without this "fake sandboxing" strawman, flatkill.org is left without a convincing argument.
The security trade-offs that come with flatpak are the same tradeoffs that desktop operating systems like MacOS and Windows have made since their inception.
Considering that these are successful desktop operating systems, whereas Linux is not, one might conclude that these are the right tradeoffs, all things considered. Sure, it's "a security nightmare", but we've been living through it for decades. The alternatives clearly aren't good enough to bring everyone to move over.