Flatsonar

MeerK40t

by MeerK40t

Laser Cutter Software

Dangerous permissions Verified creator MIT v0.9.9000

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About

MeerK40t is a free and open-source laser cutter control application for designing, preparing, and sending jobs to a variety of supported laser devices.

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • full access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • sets environment variable MEERK40T_DISABLE_UPDATER
    --env=MEERK40T_DISABLE_UPDATER=1

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • the build has network access: it can download things the manifest does not list
    python3-deps:build-options:--share=network
  • fetches from the network during the build (nothing to audit beforehand): pip3 install --prefix=${FLATPAK_DEST} --no-cache-dir \ setuptools wheel sip typing_extensions \ Pillow numpy requests \ (x3)
    python3-deps:build-commands
  • the build has network access: it can download things the manifest does not list
    python3-wxpython:build-options:--share=network
  • fetches from the network during the build (nothing to audit beforehand): pip3 install --verbose --prefix=${FLATPAK_DEST} --no-deps --no-build-isolation wxpython-4.2.4.tar.gz
    python3-wxpython:build-commands
  • hosted by github.com/meerk40t, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.meerk40t.meerk40t
    publisher:namespace

Maintenance

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