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Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers

Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers

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.

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