But the lack of verification and validation is a huge risk to flatpaks. As someone formerly involved with securing OSes, this kind of thing was scary back then and doubly scary since it entered its “don’t confirm; just get in, loser” phase.
What we do realize is that this “both sides” bullshit is the biggest thing pushed by Russian spammers right now, because their goal is to elect someone better for Putin.
My mom gets a scam page on her browser like once a week. It jams full screen and she cant remember F10 or winkey to get it to where she can kill it (#retirees). So it’ll play “you have a virus. Call the number on the screen” through her internal speaker and USB headphones looping the same minute-long speech for days until she calls me to fix it.
Do you have any idea how weird that was the first time someone brought one of those in? We absolutely refused to believe him - we were an ISP that only did a little PC work - until we had it on the bench and it really was doing it.
I myself am nearly to “please call Poison control” levels of caffeine in my bloodstream, so it must be nearly 9:30. Earl Grey Syndrome sets in around 4 usually.