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Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers (wedistribute.org)
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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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[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

tools to thrive should also be building things for secure, private communication.

Sure, but this should not be seen on the same class of software of "social media" or even "the web".