Canonical's Snap Store Hit By Malicious Apps

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As a snap package maintainer i find it weird that there weren't any guardrails in place to avoid situations like this, considering that the main snap consumer are Ubuntu users and Ubuntu is from canonical.

I guess I should've set my expectations a bit lower

I've been... baffled... that all of Canonical's different products don't work better together.

It's not that they don't work better in conjunction, it's canonical's lack of moderation in the snapcraft store.

This could've avoided day one by adding a manual review process (like what they are temporarily doing right now)

I don't know how flathub handles new package submissions, but I think that they definitely need to have a process similar to what other distros have in place for native packages (heck, even Ubuntu's own repos have a review process)

you confuse canonical with fedora or rhel standard... which... is sad... but at least flatpak is the savior in the end. haha..

Red Had has 20x the employees as Canonical, I hope their product is better

Yeah, my bad 😅

I've forgotten that Canonical is not like Fedora or Red Hat

...but at least flatpak is the savior in the end.

Flatpak definitely has a potential, I use them daily. Haven't had any issues so far