Trading off possible kernel bugs against letting a whole LOT of userspace software run with real root privilege
Only bubblewrap would run as root, but yes this is a fair critique as this is an opinionated tradeoff. I'm considering adding a set of userns variants to give users the choice between the two.
the packages have a bad security reputation
By default we only enable the flathub-verified remote for this reason.
Just more attack surface if you didn't remove Firefox.
We're removing firefox.
... and pushing everybody into a less tested code path. Again, what is this trying to solve?
Only bubblewrap would run as root, but yes this is a fair critique as this is an opinionated tradeoff. I'm considering adding a set of userns variants to give users the choice between the two.
the packages have a bad security reputation
By default we only enable the flathub-verified remote for this reason.
Just more attack surface if you didn't remove Firefox.
We're removing firefox.
... and pushing everybody into a less tested code path. Again, what is this trying to solve?
Around half of V8 vulnerabilities are enabled by JIT: https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Sec...