On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 05:33:43PM +0200, Jan Vidar Krey wrote:
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016, at 16:43, Aeris wrote:
- security is better
Sorry to say that, but : no. It’s very weaker than plain old Debian package.
This is a matter of perspective on the "security" definition.
The snaps does run in a separate container group, so it does have some more layers of isolation to the rest of the system. This means it is probably better to install an untrusted snap than adding another untrusted APT source repository for your system.
That's great, except you _really_ shouldn't be installing an untrusted _anything_ on your system, much less an untrusted tor package. And implying that this system magically makes untrusted things safe and suitable for install on a working machine is in my opinion a terrible precedent to set. A malicious tor install can do plenty of harm even if it was fully isolated from the rest of the machine.
If something is untrusted, don't install it. Period.
--Sean