• Are you using Flatpaks?
  • Are you trusting Flathub?
  • Do you bother about the sandboxing and security?
  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I have a handful of applications from Flathub I trust, but that’s it.

    I don’t see Flatpak as a security mechanism and I don’t treat it like one.

    • qwesx@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      This is generally good advice. Would you run the program without a sandbox? No? Then you probably shouldn’t run it inside a sandbox either.
      You can never be sure that the program isn’t using a flaw in the sandbox to break out or is just piggybacking onto a whitelisted action that is required for the program’s basic functionality.

      And if some program requires r/w for your entire home directory and network access then you might as well not use a sandbox in the first place because it can already do everything useful that it needs to do.