A controversial developer circumvented one of Mastodon's primary tools for blocking bad actors, all so that his servers could connect to Threads.

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.

  • NatanaelEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    And now we’re dealing with key management instead

    • @ttmrichter
      2•1 year ago

      You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.

    • @ttmrichter
      0•1 year ago

      You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.