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ari but with fangs

"JSON interoperability issues" is not a sentence i thought i'd have to read ever

i am fucking livid

telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-0

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Ángela Stella Matutina

@arisunz

The creativity of fools is endless. They will find a way to break anything.

Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@arisunz I wish this JSON thing would be specific to Matrix…
Mastodon probably still supports JSON-LD Signatures which cause this exact style of problem, plus of course breaks plausible-deniability. (Fediverse as a whole supports HTTP Signatures instead where you sign JSON/whatever as a binary blob that you only decode afterwards)
rigrig

@arisunz Yikes, "running a personal matrix instance" just got removed from my maybe-play-around-with list.

Charles OuGuo

@arisunz Adding to this list, the org's public response to security vulnerabilities has been... not great, basically saying "We expect users to trust servers, and security research puts our funding at risk":
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

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