• diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 hours ago

    FlatHub website

    Where? I don’t see it here. Can click on the “manifest” but nobody will be reading all of that. Tried Tor Browser to rule out extensions. Maybe it’s actually communicating with the desktop client in some way which I don’t have?

    Also, a backdoor in this particular program can steal your PGP keys. Some clueless guy who added it to GitHub for a tutorial may have some issues if it’s not password protected. It’s in no way like Android where “OpenKeychain” were forced to define a protocol and now reading a key prompts the user.

    Oh, and one of the few dozen local privilege escalations found by AI in the mountains of trash of our great kernel completely negate all of this. It has to be AI because no human nowadays is doing all of that anymore. And enslaving humans to pick out code 24/7 isn’t legal anymore anywhere, ya know.

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      FlatHub website

      Where? I don’t see it here.

      click the red “medium risk” thing near the install button

      Oh, and one of the few dozen local privilege escalations found by AI in the mountains of trash of our great kernel completely negate all of this. It has to be AI because no human nowadays is doing all of that anymore. And enslaving humans to pick out code 24/7 isn’t legal anymore anywhere, ya know.

      that’s not a problem of flathub, but literally all computers. windows, macos, android is also susceptible to it.

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        click the red “medium risk”

        Literally how the fuck was I, or let alone “a simple user”, is supposed to know that? “Intuitive, uncluttered UI” my ass. Also “The software developer has verified their identity, which makes the app more likely to be safe” ??? How Android wannabe (without actually being anything like Android) do they want to be???

        not a problem of flathub

        The problem of flathub is the illusion of safety.

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          click the red “medium risk”

          Literally how the fuck was I, or let alone “a simple user”, is supposed to know that?

          idk, this is the first time I saw that menu. it’s a pretty visible red at a prominent place on the webpage, so I wouldn’t say it’s hidden

          The problem of flathub is the illusion of safety.

          where is the illusion of the safety? where does it say it’s the safest thing ever made?