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.

  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I meant to say generally, for folks that might read this comment and think problems surrounding the platform and security are solved.