Onno (VK6FLAB)

Posts hitting the fediverse over the past 24 hours or so are essentially creating a new account for each post. The accounts are across many instances and posts across many communities.

I’m not sure how this proposal would work in the current environment.

While true, reporting the spam run I saw would not have benefitted from such a system, since there were nearly as many accounts as there were posts and they were across many different instances.

The more steps, the less effective any moderation is going to be.

I literally just reported about 50 or so spam posts, manually, for a message that was being posted by new accounts with only one or two posts, each to a different communities and instances, seconds apart, each username related words with a number that changed, account age less than a day.

In other words, an automated spamming engine creating accounts across multiple instances and posting at scale.

Think USENET Green Card from the early 90’s, a pivotal moment in spam history. This is the tip of the iceberg.

You cannot fight this with judges and voting, you need a better approach.

I think that the headline says more about Electron than it does about Rust.

If I remember correctly, my understanding is that the fridges were running an ancient version of nginx, had the username admin, no password the password is reset daily to … the current date and based on the information printed before logging in were easily found with a search engine.

The “hack” can apparently be achieved with a single line of bash, using curl to make the connection.

I’ll see if I can find the thread that discussed/announced it, but as an ICT professional, this doesn’t appear to be a “hack”, rather a set of unlocked doors that someone bored enough tried the knob on.

Edit:

Sorry, remembered the password incorrectly.

Source: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117429502412235079

It’s true, but it’s not obvious if you’re new to the fediverse, since until now the closest we’ve had to decentralized communities online is Usenet and that’s only familiar to you if you’re been online for 30 years or more.

I think it depends on where you go. I’ve seen lots of supportive behaviour across the fediverse.