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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by progval on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:38AM (#34921999)
> But flatpak has it sandboxed so the worst you could do is maybe steal my Spotify session token.

It has access to X11 <https://github.com/flathub/com.spotify.Client/blob/0856c7641...>, so it could also be running a keylogger.

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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by jhoechtl on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:03AM (#34922529)
Which is an issue of the X architecture less of flatpack. Wayland is there for a reason
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