An additional sandbox is probably rather a security win than a security
risk. It would be great if that could be MIRed before feature freeze.

GDK-pixbuf, Evince and other "thumbnailer users" seem to depend on that:
http://www.hadess.net/2017/07/security-for-security-gods-sandboxing.html

To quote Bastien Nocera: " For GNOME 3.26 (and today in git master), the
thumbnailer stall will be doubly bolted by a Bubblewrap sandbox and a
seccomp blacklist.

This closes a whole vector of attack for the GNOME Desktop,..."

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