Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store
The problem with snaps is that they didn't take security really seriously on desktop: <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-expert-matthew-garrett-ubuntu-16-04s-new-snap-format-is-a-security-risk/" rel="nofollow">https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-expert-matthew-garrett-u...</a><p>>"X has no real concept of different levels of application trust. Any application can register to receive keystrokes from any other application. Any application can inject fake key events into the input stream. An application that is otherwise confined by strong security policies can simply type into another window," he wrote.<p>They might have wrapped X protocol to provide more security and control. Instead they decided not to.<p>They might have created a system which is as bulletproof as on iOS where you can install any apps and be 99.9999% sure that they won't steal your data unless you allow them to. But they created this instead.