There’s Obfuscate, an image redactor, and Metadata Cleaner which is self-descriptive. Both works properly without any filesystem access at all, because they use the file picker portal to ask the user for the files to be processed.
I remember in 1995-ish or something when I used the internet for the first time using the Netscape browser… And I was asking a friend if he had tried all the web sites yet. Just got a weird look back… :) I didn’t know what the internet was back then at first.
What if your app actually needs access to the internet?
Or actually do anything useful? No network, no filesystem… it’s a hello world app isn’t it…
There are portals: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/desktop-integration.html#portals . they allow secure access to many features. Also any flatpak app still has access to a private app-specific filesystem, just not to the host.
Doesn’t work for all applications but for many sand boxing is possible without a loss of features.
There’s Obfuscate, an image redactor, and Metadata Cleaner which is self-descriptive. Both works properly without any filesystem access at all, because they use the file picker portal to ask the user for the files to be processed.
Portal.
The app can then declare the network permission and it will still be marked as safe.
Download the internet along with it!
I’m self-hosting the entire internet. I hope you guys are enjoying yourselves.
https://github.com/iiab/iiab
That’s super cool. I bookmarked it. Thanks!
Thanks for having us on your server… when can I get out again though?
I just unplugged you. Give it a minute or two and no more pain.
Thank you, good… bye
I remember in 1995-ish or something when I used the internet for the first time using the Netscape browser… And I was asking a friend if he had tried all the web sites yet. Just got a weird look back… :) I didn’t know what the internet was back then at first.
Oh come on, what modern program actually needs to communicate or access the file system?