> On 6 Aug 2020, at 20:52, Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:
>
> For me security refers primarily to file access. This takes me back to
> my question. If I craete a new user, named zoom for example, and have
> it run zoom, won't that limit access files on my HD?

With the dpkg-deb utility you can extract all the control information and pre/post install/rm scripts from the .deb file so you can inspect what the package would do on installation/removal.

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Tom