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.

  • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    To add a bit of important nuance to this idea (particularly how this argument comes up with regards to threads). This does not apply to legal rights over your content. That is to say, of course you should treat any information you put out there as out of your control with regards to access but if somebody tries to claim legal rights over your content they are probably breaking the law.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Right. Publicly available does not mean in public domain. But the issue here is not of copyright, but merely of gated access.

      • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Totally. I’m just trying to bring it up whenever I see folks having this discussion because some people don’t seem to make the distinction. Worries me that some are so willing to cede that big social will illegally hoover up our data and there’s nothing we can do about it.