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Enhancing App Security Through Manual Reviews and Unverified Badges

The chapter delves into Canonical's decision to introduce manual reviews for new apps in the Snaps store to ensure app legitimacy and security, rejecting crypto wallet-related apps automatically. It highlights the importance of human vetting for app safety and the implementation of unverified badges on FlatHub to address potential scam apps. The transition to universal packages like flat pack in the Linux world is discussed, along with Mozilla's discontinuation of its data scrubbing service and the EU's investigation into digital markets compliance.

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