A controversial developer circumvented one of Mastodon's primary tools for blocking bad actors, all so that his servers could connect to Threads.

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.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Right. Publicly available does not mean in public domain. But the issue here is not of copyright, but merely of gated access.