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Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers (wedistribute.org)

submitted 10 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

No, you're right. Everyone who downvoted probably also went on an angry tirade first, but they just didn't type it out. Totally the same. 👍

this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023

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