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Good News, Everyone!
Canonical has implemented one of my suggestions after the recent crypto scam issue in the Snap Store. This is excellent progress and should be applauded. 👏
https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/manual-review-of-all-new-snap-name-registrations/39440?u=popey
Manual review of all new snap name registrations
Over the recent weeks, the Snap Store has been under attack by various publishers attempting to upload malicious crypto-wallet snaps.snapcraft.io
[Blog] Hey! Remember a month ago I mentioned there was a scam BitCoin wallet in the Snap Store. There's another one. This time I took it apart to see how it works.
Edit: It's worse - they published ten scam apps under different wallet brand names. 🙁
https://popey.com/blog/2024/03/exodus-wallet-part-three/
Guess Who's Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap!
Previously… Back in February, I blogged about a series of scam Bitcoin wallet apps that were published in the Canonical Snap store, including one which netted a scammer $490K of some poor rube’s coin.Alan Pope (https://popey.com/blog)
Sp basically @ubuntu #Canonical failed to provide the main benefit of their #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider #Solution aka. #Snap & #Snapcraft: