@stefano The cost isn't 0, as the risk is potentially...

@stefano The cost isn't 0, as the risk is potentially unbounded.

Imagine if somebody hacks into the VPS, waits for a Twitter outage, and posts a message from a top government official that Zurich is under imminent nuclear attack from Russia, then conveniently forwards the link to that official government instance to all the media.

Like 25 September at 22:12 | Wall-to-wall | Open on dragonscave.space

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Stefano Marinelli

@miki the same could happen if the X accounts gets hacked. Or the website. Having multiple communication channels is the key to avoid those kinds of problems.
Monoculture is always a problem.

26 September at 6:07 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe

OfShad0ws

@miki
I would argue that hacking into the (correctly set up, maintained and updated) VPS is harder than hacking into Twitter

One can also employ better protection against such vulnerabilities: move official accounts to another instance and lock the login page behind the firewall, allowing only connections from inside their office network. This is a trivial task.

@stefano

26 September at 6:09 | Open on mastodon.social

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