My name is Oliver Calder and I am part of the Snapd team at Canonical. In this post, I’m excited to share some more information about a project I’ve been working on over several years with a talented group of people across the AppArmor, Desktop, Design, and Snapd teams: Permissions Prompting. Permissions Prompting is a new layer of user-defined security which empowers users to control at runtime the level of access applications have to the host system. There was an excellent post from around t...
It’s a good improvement. They needed this years ago (or ideally, when they first started using snaps).