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Its not more or less of a security risk as any other binary that you download from anywhere (or pipe into bash from curl for that matter). Yes, it's sold as be
by pilif 11y ago
Its not more or less of a security risk as any other binary that you download from anywhere (or pipe into bash from curl for that matter).
Yes, it's sold as being more secure than other solutions, when it in-fact isn't, but the headline still is clickbait because if Snap is a security risk then everything else is too.
- Beacon11 11y agoI came here to say just that. It also _does_ increase security if X isn't used by the application in the snap (i.e. if the X11 or unity7 interfaces aren't requested).
- djrogers 11y ago>Yes, it's sold as being more secure than other solutions, when it in-fact isn't, It's entirely possible for SNAP to be 'more secure than other solutions' while still exposing users to one specific risk. There's no need for perfection in order to be able to rightly claim 'more secure'.