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Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle (popey.com)

submitted 9 months ago by wolf to c/[email protected]

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I am not a member of the Anti-Snap crowd (although of course the server sources should be open source), but there is obviously a lot to improve. Flathub/Flatpak should also take note!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like the recommendations but I would also just ban cryptocurrency wallets from the app stores (and traditional finance apps capable of transferring funds electronically). There’s not much you can do to stop scams in that space but if the devs distribute their own apps, at least the user can verify they’re at the original developer’s site or repo or whatever and possibly hold them accountable.

That probably won’t help on the scams — people in the crypto world get scammed more than aging grandparents, it seems. But I don’t want Canonical or Flathub to be held liable due to a lack of moderation resources. If they can ever automate moderation to the degree it’s safe, bring back the finance app category with some safeguards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah for some apps downloading from the offical site is a good idea.