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    As detailed by one user wondering what happened on the Snapcraft forums, the wallet immediately transferred his entire balance to an unknown address after a 12-word recovery phrase was entered (which Exodus tells you on support pages never to do).

    Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical, responded to a related thread on whether crypto apps should be banned entirely.

    Making apps safer for people vulnerable to social engineering is “a very hard problem but one I think we can and should engage in,” Shuttleworth wrote.

    At the Snapcraft forums, Holly Hall, product lead for Ubuntu’s backing services company Canonical, wrote last week about a new policy of manual review for all new Snap registrations.

    As noted by The Register, a different sandboxed app platform (store), Flathub, recently made related changes to its validation process.

    Open software repositories have long faced issues with malicious look-alike uploads, including the PyPI index for Python programming.


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