As someone new to Linux, one of the things I see is that Linux is that it doesn't have AV software. If it had something like MS's antimalware, stuff like this would be easily caught.
AV is just a part of it. Linux doesn't have any usable way to protect users' data from the mallicious app. so what if an app cannot load a dodgy driver if it can erase/encrypt my photos directory or read my
Allow me to second that. I cannot trust the snap packagers, so I cannot trust the snaps. I've been migrating my systems to Debian and will now redouble my efforts because of this lapse. Hopefully Canonical will see the error of its ways and remove snaps, but I'm not waiting around for that. Thankfully, Linux gives me options.
I mean you could have just uninstalled the snaps and use ubuntu without it...
If you're not compiling from source yourself, the binary has to come from someone you trust,
even if you would compile it by yourself you would have to make sure that the source code hasn't been compromised, sc as well as compiler and rest of the building chain etc. doable? yes. is anyone really doing that? no
As far as I can understand it, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission established that "I refuse service because I refuse to assist an action that violates my religious morals" is an acceptable excuse to deny service.
in more civilised parts of the world that stuff wouldn't fly. but hey, some countries actually do have a seperate church and religion, unlike the US
Real Programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.