Sometimes I learn things about #ActivityPub and wonder “what the hell were they smoking?” https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114058565002752078
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Sometimes I learn things about #ActivityPub and wonder “what the hell were they smoking?” https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114058565002752078
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Sometimes I learn things about #ActivityPub and wonder “what the hell were they smoking?” https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114058565002752078
@jwildeboer lol, thankfully that's not a protocol thing.
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@jwildeboer lol, thankfully that's not a protocol thing.
@[email protected] @[email protected] this is mildly concerning, but is no different from an http server serving different websites for different clients.
Were they smoking things when designing http? Probably, but that's tangential
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@[email protected] actually while I'm at it, "http servers serving different things based on who's requesting it" is a foundational element of the web.
The fact that you are a "logged in" version of your app is proof of that.
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@julian In this case I didn't interact with the server in question at all. Someone I follow boosted the toot on that server, hence my instance fetched it and got a toot back with the variable replacement which now showed up on the public feed of my instance. Leading to someone sending me a DM to check if my instance was possibly compromised. Which it wasn't. But the stole time from a visitor of my public feed, me and the company hosting my instance. LOL, I guess?
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@julian In this case I didn't interact with the server in question at all. Someone I follow boosted the toot on that server, hence my instance fetched it and got a toot back with the variable replacement which now showed up on the public feed of my instance. Leading to someone sending me a DM to check if my instance was possibly compromised. Which it wasn't. But the stole time from a visitor of my public feed, me and the company hosting my instance. LOL, I guess?
@[email protected] Right, there's a possible social engineering vector at play here, which I think makes this a little concerning.
I certainly don't like my time wasted either
