Just check the permissions of an app before installing. Bazaar has a gauge for how “safe” an app is based on permissions. If it doesn’t request internet, filesystem access, and other powerful permissions, it’ll be marked as the safest.
Really it’s the same as docker. It’s secure most of the time, but don’t come crying about getting hacked if you give all your containers access to /dev, host networking, etc
Pretty much. Snap is the only one with a semblance of anything appearing to be security, and nearly every container requires you to turn it off to run.
Nope, the security is basically a gate in the middle of a field.
“App with access to files can access files”
And “we won’t tell you which ones can”
Just check the permissions of an app before installing. Bazaar has a gauge for how “safe” an app is based on permissions. If it doesn’t request internet, filesystem access, and other powerful permissions, it’ll be marked as the safest.
Really it’s the same as docker. It’s secure most of the time, but don’t come crying about getting hacked if you give all your containers access to /dev, host networking, etc
Yeah that post is 5 years old, I would think a lot of that has changed by now
Pretty much. Snap is the only one with a semblance of anything appearing to be security, and nearly every container requires you to turn it off to run.
Ha! That sucks. I appreciate that article but now I’m having a little bit of an existential crisis.