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> Currently, Linux desktop software offers no security against malicious code. The only protection the 'traditional' Linux desktop offers against malicious code
by smallerfish 5y ago
> Currently, Linux desktop software offers no security against malicious code. The only protection the 'traditional' Linux desktop offers against malicious code is user separation, which is no protection at all. Before full security can be offered, applications need to be migrated to safer practices.
To be fair, he appears to be arguing for the current model, where armies of distro volunteers review and manually package up debs and rpms (granted that on smaller distro teams, this may be less thorough). There is an actual third party involved
in this explicit review step. With flatpak the developer has a direct route to the user without any intermediary or checks.
- esarbe 5y ago> There is an actual third party involved in this explicit review step. With flatpak the developer has a direct route to the user without any intermediary or checks. I think your reading of the author's argument is correct. To that I would counter that you can have just the same with Flatpak, it just depends on the Repository you are pulling your packages from. It would be awesome if Flathub were to offer some kind of process to validate the packaged applications.