This is the best summary I could come up with:
As detailed by one user wondering what happened on the Snapcraft forums, the wallet immediately transferred his entire balance to an unknown address after a 12-word recovery phrase was entered (which Exodus tells you on support pages never to do).
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical, responded to a related thread on whether crypto apps should be banned entirely.
Making apps safer for people vulnerable to social engineering is “a very hard problem but one I think we can and should engage in,” Shuttleworth wrote.
At the Snapcraft forums, Holly Hall, product lead for Ubuntu’s backing services company Canonical, wrote last week about a new policy of manual review for all new Snap registrations.
As noted by The Register, a different sandboxed app platform (store), Flathub, recently made related changes to its validation process.
Open software repositories have long faced issues with malicious look-alike uploads, including the PyPI index for Python programming.
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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Ubuntu Snap Store looked messy years ago. Why let people upload half baked software and experiments, which get no updates, but add to search engine results ? snapcraft.io/search?q=test We’ve found 815 snaps
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 7 months ago
One of the downsides to hardcoding snap to only be able to use a single repo/store is probably added difficulty in creating testing infra for testing if uploads/CI/CD work.
lol, one of the first one’s I click on: snapcraft.io/test-snapd-public (by Canonical)
Maybe if they didn’t insist on holding a monopoly over the store, they would be able to have an internal version of the store for testing, rather than cluttering the public one.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yeah but then they can’t pivot to charging for updates.
leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 7 months ago
Oof. Never thought to test that. That’s awful 😬