&gt; is more secure with snap&#x2F;snappy because they are sandboxed (to some extend).<p>In a press release. Yes it is more secure but when running on a desktop with X11 will have same issues as before with X11.<p>Imagine a press release for 16.04 that all of the sudden starts going into details about X11 vulnerabilities. Who does that?<p>I am can see refuting a white-paper where Ubuntu makes detailed claims about security guarantees under certain threat models but this seems like a cheap shot to me.<p>Moreover under this model you can shoot down any product. &quot;Tor provides privacy&quot; -- &quot;Ah no it doesn&#x27;t, here are more details&quot;. &quot;The new JDK is faster than the old&quot; -- &quot;Wrong! Here is a benchmark where it shows it is slower&quot;. And so on.