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There's no mention of snaps in the sandboxing section. This is a shame, I'd like to hear the author's analysis of its sandboxing.

As far as I'm aware, it is stricter on providing permissions to snaps than flatpak, in that classic confinement and special plugs require store approval. It has the same issue that most snaps provide access to the "home" plug for trivial access to much user data, but dotfiles are excluded so there is no trivial exploit through .bashrc, or reading of .config data, for example.



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