I’ve been hearing people suggest staying away from flatpaks, but I haven’t heard the reasons why. I guess that’s it?
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msokiovt@feddit.online 2 days agoNot the developer, though that could be an option for sure. I’d highly recommend looking at the security holes for Flatpak, and it’s got a ton of them. They’re getting fixed, though I don’t even have Flatpak installed on my machine.
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dan@upvote.au 2 days ago
Are there security issues specific to Flatpak? I would have thought it’d be more secure than Appimage, since it’s sandboxed.
msokiovt@feddit.online 1 day ago
While it is sandboxed, a Flatpak can have this happen to it (from the time): https://flatkill.org/
dan@upvote.au 1 day ago
How does this differ from every other distribution method, though? You can just as easily do something malicious with an Appimage or Debian/rpm package.