hawkwind

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[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Out of curiosity, where would the regulators go for a case like this? There's no "company" running it per. se.

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 4 points 2 years ago

Concerns were posted a few days ago, but no POC that used the exact same attack as we saw here. Basically, there were some warnings, and work was underway that would have prevented this, but it was not done fast enough. There is a patch now, that will take a while to roll out, plus a renewed focus on general and related issues.

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Don't fall for it. They're also an admin on mastodon.world! :)

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They defaced it with dicks and changed the federation list to be only threads.net. I don't think it was a state sponsored chinese hacking group. :)

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 1 points 2 years ago

You're not misunderstanding. They just solve more than one issue, and create a few too.

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 3 points 2 years ago

That's a personal preference though. You don't have a need for a relay. There are more than a few people who want to run their own instance and at least browse all the things without having to subscribe to them. This is a news aggregator at the core after all.

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been pondering trying to make one, but it's not going to be a cake-walk. The tool (that was a script) I wrote ruffled some feathers for it's potential to destroy the lemmyverse. While I don't believe that could happen. I'm still interested in something easier and more integrated.

The theory is simple and I am willing to take a stab at it, but there might be road blocks trying to make or incorporate changes to the actual lemmy code.

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That, is actually kind of fascinating and may be important info for someone doing a follow-up investigation. If that was the bad actor phishing for moderation access, why would they need that, when they already had an admin account? If it was legit, then it's super sus. whoever this app developer was needs to have a little light shone on them.

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 6 points 2 years ago

TBF, at least you're doing something.

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 1 points 2 years ago

I was trying to by funny. :(

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management -5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You do you. I would tell my users I have no idea what's going on, and definitely not say "using your open tabs is probably fine."

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 3 points 2 years ago

That makes more sense.

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