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by dmurray 1755 days ago
Is that more secure? Snaps seem to be shit for performance, so I avoid them by default, but maybe I should be favouring them when I have security concerns.
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Not really.

https://github.com/ogra1/zoom-snap/blob/065831f1e83c1230810a...

It has the "home" permissions which means it can write "sudo pwn" into your ~/.bashrc, which will of course pwn you.

By default (without -—classic) on install) they run in a chroot. Makes saving files sent to you a hassle as it can’t write to your downloads directory.