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First, the important rule: Don't use anything outside the official Jolla repository, unless you can trust a chosen 3rd party source.

There were already questions about possible harmful 3rd party Android applications and if they could access/harm Sailfish OS system files. But what about 3rd party RPM apps? For example from Warehouse/Openrepos.net? While the risk is minimal and there is no known malware around, this could change in the future. Out of interest, I have following questions:

What should one do after installing something nasty? How can it be found? How to stop it? Limited user access certainly helps, but I assume there must be additional security tools in Mer Core (something like AppArmor?).

I don't know much about all these things and it would be interesting to learn how Sailfish OS protects itself. Maybe someone can give a good answer :-)

First, the important rule: Don't use anything outside the official Jolla repository, unless you can trust a chosen 3rd party source.

There were already questions about possible harmful 3rd party 3rd-party Android applications and if wether they could access/harm Sailfish OS system files. But what about 3rd party 3rd-party RPM apps?files? For example from Warehouse/Openrepos.net? While the risk is minimal and there is no known malware around, this could change in the future. Out of interest, I have following questions:

What should one do after installing something nasty? How can it be found? How to stop it? Limited user access certainly helps, but I assume there must be additional security tools in Mer Core (something like AppArmor?).

I don't know much about all these things and it would be interesting to learn how Sailfish OS protects itself. Maybe someone can give a good answer :-)