Open post aritrasaha @quantum@mastodon.online · 11mo ago Replying to @Mer__edith@mastodon.world Finally, to help you determine the fake and malicious from the genuine, we have signposts (https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007459591-Signal-Profiles-and-Message-Requests#message_requests) in the application that can aid you in identifying fakers and phishing attempts. We also have tools like Registration Lock to help protect against account takeovers. 6/ @Mer__edith please provide a flatpak version of signal so everyone can use this.
Open post aritrasaha @quantum@mastodon.online · 10mo ago Replying to @hias1234@social.anoxinon.de @quantum There is https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.signal.Signal @Mer__edith @hias1234 @Mer__edith this is a 3rd party listing not a official one
Open post aritrasaha @quantum@mastodon.online · 40mo ago Replying to @sonny@floss.social <p>To people who keep picking a specific app to "demonstrate" that the Flatpak sandbox is broken: This is called cherry picking.</p><p>Nobody claimed the Flatpak sandbox was a magical solution. For certain things apps need upstream support, but hey everyone benefits from it!</p><p>• We get proper and secure desktop APIs, yes also non Flatpak<br />• Apps become more secure over time<br />• More control to user over permissions and data<br />• No random files in ~</p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Flatpak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Flatpak</span></a></p> @sonny@floss.social gnome need a permission manager just like what we have in android as more and more distros having immutable variants and installed apps are as flatpak or snap.