Gregory's ServerAs much as I'd like to see Clubhouse fail it's a bit ridiculous the media is running with a "leak" of user data... It's all public profile stuff
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 @stux If my understanding is correct, if you have an API token (which you can intercept from the app on your phone) you can use their search API to iterate over all users @stux You could argue that there should be an upper limit of results returned by search and rate limits to slow down scraping of data but ultimately I don't see anything that would classify it as unauthorized access at all. All the information obtained is something you would see by visiting each user's profile.  Eugen, the API has been completely reverse engineered, long ago. Enough to log in from scratch, you don't even need to extract the token form the actual app. Yes, they do ban accounts that exhibit unusual behavior or make too many requests over short time periods. For that matter, they banned some of the accounts made through that Android app of mine. Yes it's public stuff and public stuff only. I don't see why it's worthy of any excitement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgJudU_jlZ8 So sth like the Moonpig 2015 situation but with relatively benign, technically public data? Or like the situation on Discord a while back, also with technically public data? @Gargron what do you think of having voice channels in mastodon like them? Good or bad idea? @Gargron I have my jam system up and running. Now let's see what I can do with it...  @Gargron Until we come up with a special term for failing to protect user data from scraping, I'm ok with "data breach". That's what we called the Cambridge Analytica Facebook kerfuffle, that's what the latest 530M FB accounts database is. Speaking of social platforms we want to fail, did you ever sent Gab an AGPL violation notice over their taking down the Git repo of their clone of Mastodon on March 1 this year? @Gargron I've heard fans say the media doesn't like it because it threatens them. I don't really know but part of it just has to be the numbers of clicks titles with the word "leak" in them get  |
@Gargron what is so bad about Clubhouse