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[–] [email protected] 153 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Nice

Good to see one of the two big packaging hubs do something against malware

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Next step, display the "potential unsafe"-badge next to verified or unverified, that can be found on the same page. In example https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.shiiion.primehack is marked as verified, but if you scroll down you can see the application has full system and data access and is marked as potential unsafe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Snap already marks unverified apps

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Yet Ubuntu still recommends installing anything from the terminal if a command was found in a rando unverified snap.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How does that Help against Malware?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because if you search Firefox and see a badge that says verified, you can be confident that it was Mozilla that packaged it and added it to FlatHub as opposed to some random scammer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You can't just upload a App to Flathub. Everythng is reviewed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Apt has done this forever