This is kind of a bad comparison. Theoretically, malicious authors could sign their Flatpak packages and Flatpak could verify it with cryptography. It doesn’t matter if you’re downloading a “crypto-wallet” that’s really just a phishing exercise.
That’s why they put their public key fingerprint on many distinct domains, and users can import them and pin them. Flatpak doesn’t support this. Apt does.
This is kind of a bad comparison. Theoretically, malicious authors could sign their Flatpak packages and Flatpak could verify it with cryptography. It doesn’t matter if you’re downloading a “crypto-wallet” that’s really just a phishing exercise.
That’s why they put their public key fingerprint on many distinct domains, and users can import them and pin them. Flatpak doesn’t support this. Apt does.