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by panpanna 2433 days ago
I wonder if this happens on other platforms too...

I know that at least libreoffice on linux scans your files for some odd reason...
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kd913 2433 days ago
People could always use the snap versions of libreoffice/browsers and either limit access to the home directory or remove access to the network. It seems the easiest way of applying a Android permission based model to Linux.

Alternatively, there are also firejail profiles which could be used for restricting what these tools can do.

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panpanna 2432 days ago
The snap version has some limitations but I think that is the future.

And just because we maybe can contain it, it doesn't mean libreoffice devs should be off the hook for reading private keys from my drive.

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glitter1 2432 days ago
Do you have a source for this? I believe you, I just want to read about something this bad I can't find anything.
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panpanna 2432 days ago
About a year ago I enabled apparmor with a bunch of additional rules and noticed some odd denied file read attempts.

I asked around and people blamed it on some Java or pgp stuff. No idea if it's still in there, I can't see it anymore but I also may have disabled all libreoffice plugins.

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NumberCruncher 2432 days ago
Dropbox did the same on ubuntu
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