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by nickik 2816 days ago
Flatpak and Flathub are not hiding this and nowhere on Flathub does it claim that all Flathub apps are securely sand boxed. Flathub has unoffical packages and this it has the same issue like all other unoffical repos.

Flatpak CAN be used to do sandboxing, but that totally different from saying 'all application will be securely sandboxed'. I don't know where the authors got this idea from.

The simple fact is, that sandboxing on a legacy system is difficult and Flatpak can't magic away many of the security issues in the Linux desktop.

Also all the 'Red-Hat Developers' evil reminds me of the typical Systemd-hate rant and I really hope we don't have to suffer another iteration of this in the Open-Source community. The person that leads the project works for Red Hat, but its not a Red Hat project.