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

submitted 11 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] rglullis@communick.news 122 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Repeat after me: anything I write on the internet should be treated as public information. If I want to keep any conversation private, I will not post it in a public website.

[-] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 5 points 11 months ago

Seriously. Bobthenazi could just go to an aligned server and make an account Bobthenotzi and boom -- perfectly able to follow whoever he wants.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One more reason to argue that we should drop the idea of "aligned" servers and that we are moving to a future where it is better to charge (small) amounts from everyone instead of depending on (large) donations from a few.

[-] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 3 points 11 months ago

Ideally, a distributed fediverse wouldn't need much in terms of donations because it's a bunch of small instances instead of a few huge ones.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not the point. The point that instances that are open for everyone will be open for bad actors as well.

If the mere act of signing up to an instance requires a small payment, you are automatically preventing the absolute majority of spammers, "spray and pray" scammers and channer trolls.