{"id":9414,"date":"2020-10-02T18:07:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T22:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=9414"},"modified":"2020-10-02T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T22:07:53","slug":"flatpak-a-security-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/flatpak-a-security-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Flatpak &#8211; a security nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Flatpak &#8211; a security nightmare &#8211; 2 years later<\/h1>\n<p>Two years ago I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flatkill.org\/\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0about then heavily-pushed Flatpak, self-proclaimed &#8220;Future of Apps on Linux&#8221;. The article criticized the following three major flows in Flatpak:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most of the apps have full access to the host system but users are misled to believe the apps are sandboxed<\/li>\n<li>The flatpak runtimes and apps do not get security updates<\/li>\n<li>Flatpak breaks many aspects of desktop integration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So let&#8217;s see how Flatpak developers addressed these fundamental issues.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flatkill.org\/2020\/\">Flatpak &#8211; a security nightmare<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flatpak &#8211; a security nightmare &#8211; 2 years later Two years ago I\u00a0wrote\u00a0about then heavily-pushed Flatpak, self-proclaimed &#8220;Future of Apps on Linux&#8221;. The article criticized the following three major flows in Flatpak: &nbsp; Most of the apps have full access to the host system but users are misled to believe the apps are sandboxed The&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/flatpak-a-security-nightmare\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Flatpak - a security nightmare - Linux Shtuff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/flatpak-a-security-nightmare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flatpak - a security nightmare - Linux Shtuff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Flatpak &#8211; a security nightmare &#8211; 2 years later Two years ago I\u00a0wrote\u00a0about then heavily-pushed Flatpak, self-proclaimed &#8220;Future of Apps on Linux&#8221;. 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