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This is the best summary I could come up with:
As detailed by one user wondering what happened on the Snapcraft forums, the wallet immediately transferred his entire balance to an unknown address after a 12-word recovery phrase was entered (which Exodus tells you on support pages never to do).
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical, responded to a related thread on whether crypto apps should be banned entirely.
Making apps safer for people vulnerable to social engineering is "a very hard problem but one I think we can and should engage in," Shuttleworth wrote.
At the Snapcraft forums, Holly Hall, product lead for Ubuntu's backing services company Canonical, wrote last week about a new policy of manual review for all new Snap registrations.
As noted by The Register, a different sandboxed app platform (store), Flathub, recently made related changes to its validation process.
Open software repositories have long faced issues with malicious look-alike uploads, including the PyPI index for Python programming.
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