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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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[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.