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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And now we're dealing with key management instead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.