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Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers (wedistribute.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Authorized Fetch (also referred to as Secure Mode in Mastodon) was recently circumvented by a stupidly easy solution: just sign your fetch requests with some other domain name.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

It’s not sustainable to keep offering poorly designed solutions. People need to understand some basic things about the system they're using. The fediverse isn't a private space and fediverse developers shouldn't be advertising pseudo-private features as private or secure.