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

submitted 6 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] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023

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