treewide: Mark packages with EOL Electrons as insecure - #559268
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see #559231
These all have outdated Electron version vendored into their outputs. These are all EOL, and all have known CVEs.
This is exactly what is done with packages that use Nixpkgs-built Electron, though in this case we are being lenient as
these are quite old and would generally be dropped instead.
passthru.tests.nixpkgs-reviewon this PR. See nixpkgs-review usage../result/bin/.