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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 15 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Stemming from reports of several fake crypto apps appearing in Canonical's Snap Store that aimed to steal user funds, temporary restrictions have been put in place while Canonical investigates the security matter.

A temporary manual review requirement has also been put in place on new Snap registrations.

This manual review is intended to thwart bad actors from registering names of legitimate applications (or at least legitimate sounding names) and using that as an avenue for pushing malicious Snaps to users.

"If you try to register a new snap while the requirement is active, you will be prompted to “request reserved name”.

Upon a successful manual review from the Snap Store staff, the name will be registered.

We want to thoroughly investigate this incident without introducing any noise into the system, and more importantly, we want to make sure our users have a safe and trusted experience with the Snap Store.


The original article contains 240 words, the summary contains 150 words. Saved 38%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[-] stinkpickle2013@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 9 months ago

That's a cute comment, but FYI it doesn't actually vote for the bot on Lemmy instances (yet?)

[-] Decker108@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago
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