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
@ryanc X-Trust-Me-Bro: {"alg":"nOnE"...} vulns would be pretty funny actually :) let's hope we'll never get there though...
@ryanc I was actually thinking whether some (not so) fancy crypto could be used to pass some instead of a bool that the attacker can't forge, then realized reverse proxy configs are not exactly designed to implement such transformations in the first place :)
Nonetheless, this is an illustrative example that unless we point to some robust solution ppl *will* come up with complex but insecure solutions (see also Schneier's Law).
The more I move to a thin-client model with my workstation (with projects/services moving to VM's) the more I see my dark future as an Emacs user.
TRAMP mode is pretty cool :/
@joxean I bet >10% of tourists have the exact same reasoning.
I'm still looking for that brain activity sensor that someone used to make a propeller hat that spins faster when you think harder.
Re: CVE-2025-0108
Can we agree that "X-Trust-Me-Bro: $boolean" headers set by reverse proxies are an anti-pattern?
If so, what is the best practice?
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