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What are the cybersecurity weaknesses of the Fediverse? (waveform.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most of us are Reddit refugees, and probably clicking more random links than we ever did before on websites we've never seen before. This whole experience feels like the old internet, but also throws up insane red flags with a modern internet perspective. What are the cybersecurity weaknesses we should all be looking for, and what are the best practices?

Here's my reason for posting this. As I search for new communities across instances to follow, I sometimes end up clicking a link and I'm no longer logged in. In the corner, that could be a Sign In link or it could be phishing. It's likely due to me not understanding how to properly navigate this system, but there's nothing stopping someone from setting up a sight like this as far as I know.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would or should this be a Firefox extension when it already runs perfectly well on Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I've never run scripts in Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As soon as you've installed your preferred user script extension like Violentmonkey it's as simple as installing addons, you just click the "install" link on the script's page.

There are lots of different useful ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious, is there an advantage of running a script over an add-on? Like is it faster or takes less resources? Or did you just happen to code it like that? Not complaining though, it's been working great for me so far.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The advantage is I don't have to learn how to build an addon. It just runs code which I already can write. There's also the advantage that any browser can run JavaScript. Idk if any browser can run Firefox (or whatever) extensions.