infosex.exchange <3
You are probably looking for the infosec.exchange Mastodon instance
This host is mostly for my random stuff, and in little part acts like a well-intentioned placeholder for the typosquatted domain.
Discoverability and Archiving
Currently I'm using this host for saving the items from my own feeds to the Wayback Machine and provide in-links for search engines. I hate that I have to do this, but the non-sense ideology of Mastodon pretty much ruined the search feature for Fediverse as a whole, and this wasn't changed by the fact that they owned their mistake and implemented search eventually.
Yes, I (or anyone else) could do similar things with other peoples published feeds, regardless of the tantrum. No, you can't defederate this, because the process doesn't rely on an instance.
Gluttony Section for Search Engines
I took a slip from my tea mug. It wasn't the rum I expected.
I'm deeply disappointed.
@singe Right? I'm also glad we have oss-sec where these discussions can actually happen! I always recover some of my hope for humanity when Solar Designer enters even the most ridiculous thread in the most polite and level-headed way.
@adamshostack This is the same "smell" I mention: it's likely not just Telnet, meaning that sniffing (which can absolutely happen, just not as often as e.g. admin:admin) is probably pretty low on the priority list. I've also seen higher prio bugs like this finally pushing teams to get rid of the nasty stuff altogether, but that's not always possible (vendor lock-in on critical systems yaay).
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