Peergos
by Peergos Ltd.
A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol
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About
Peergos is building the next web - the private web, where end users are in control. Imagine web apps being secure by default and unable to track you. Imagine being able to control exactly what personal data each web app can see. Imagine never having to log in to an app ever again. You own your data and decide where it is stored and who can see it. At Peergos, we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right and we want to make it easy for everyone to interact online in ways that respect this right. The foundation of Peergos is a peer-to-peer encrypted global filesystem with fine-grained access control designed to be resistant to surveillance of data content or friendship graphs. It has a secure messenger, an encrypted email client and bridge, and a totally private and secure social network, where users are in control of who sees what (executed cryptographically). Our motto at Peergos is, "Control your data, control your destiny." The name Peergos comes from the Greek word Πύργος (Pyrgos), which means stronghold or tower, but phonetically spelt with the nice connection to being peer-to-peer. Pronunciation: peer-goss (as in gossip).
Permissions
5 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak - all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
--device=all - full access to your home folder
--filesystem=home - your keyring / saved passwords
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.secrets - sets PATH: changes which libraries or plugins get loaded
--env=PATH=/app/jre/bin:/app/bin:/usr/bin - network
--share=network - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - access to ~/.peergos
--filesystem=~/.peergos:create - system tray
--talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - printing
--socket=cups - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - Wayland display
--socket=wayland
Who publishes this
Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.
- org.peergos.Peergos claims the domain peergos.org; only its owner can prove that
publisher:namespace - installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source
source:prebuilt - fetches from github.com over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes
source:insecure-url
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
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