Hi, there!
Newbie question here: basically, the title. Perhaps what I’m asking is pretty obvious, but I’d like to double-check with the community on this.
I use Discover on my Debian KDE Plasma set-up, with Flatpaks enabled (but not Snaps). Sometimes, I come across apps (I did just yesterday, searching for translation apps to replace DeepL), that have according to its page, an unknown author and, sometimes, even an unkown licence, but which do require access permission to the whole system (this latter requirement applying specifically to Deb packages, from what I’ve seen).
Under these circumstances, is it safe to assume that such apps will still be safe because of the fact that they appear listed on Discover (in other words, is Discover a guarantee of safety for the apps it shows, as in, some type of checked or proved content), or should I still be wary of potentially malicious software included on it?
Thank you very much in advance :)


Yeah, I watched that. I mostly already knew the story, but it was a great video anyway. And…extremely disturbing. Whoever it was will learn from the mistakes of this attempt…
It can be frustrating, but Debian’s policy against binary blobs was a smart decision. I’ve run into it for glances web interface, and it’s easy enough to decide I’m okay with installing it (and hopefully glances revises their release to address the issue), but removing them by default is smart.