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I wonder if the companies that forked mastodon (like truth social) will bother to update. I can see someone posting stuff as a former president with this flaw.
Is this mastodon specific or is it an activitypub flaw?
we think any amount of detail would make it very easy to come up with an exploit
People who would create exploits for this definitely can’t read the diffs and see what changed.
Every barrier that slows down attacks a little is worth it when you are trying to buy time so people can apply emergency updates. It’s not about stopping them from ever figuring it out.
they’re just delaying it by two weeks…
😬
That’s not good.
That isn’t inversely not un_good, not.
That’s bad.
Thanks for the notice. My instance is now updated. :)
