BrianKrebsSomeone has registered a ton of new accounts and is spamming with messages saying I'm a pedophile. Sorry @jerry
Jerry 🦙💝🦙@jerry just search messages for krebson. reporting them all would take quite some time.
@briankrebs my apologies - I didn't intend for you to have to report them. I went spelunking and found about 60 accounts taken over, about 2/3 of which hadn't posted yet. I'll keep searching for more. My sincere apologies for this.
Allpoints@jerry @briankrebs this, right here, is one of the major reasons why the fediverse is awesome. Actual humans administering instances and caring about their users.
Rob RicciThis is how moderation *should work*, done by people who understand their users and the actual threat model
@ricci @allpoints I dunno. I feel like I let @briankrebs down by letting so many accounts get taken over to dog pile him.
Droppie [opensoc]so many accounts get taken over
eeek, that's extremely alarming! because i much prefer the feature-set of #Friendica compared to Masto, these days my daily fedi is the former [from whence i post this now], with my #infosecspace account mainly "just" for emergency fallbacks. now i'm wondering if i should make a habit of visiting it daily again just to keep an eye on it 🤔🤷♀️
@msdropbear @briankrebs @ricci @allpoints enable 2 factor authentication and you won’t have to worry.
hmmmm.
Two-factor AuthScan this QR code into Google Authenticator or a similar TOTP app on your phone. From now on, that app will generate tokens that you will have to enter when logging in.
If you can't scan the QR code and need to enter it manually, here is the plain-text secret:
can't see how that is any help for me
- my phone is for only calls & texts, nothing else
- all my fediversing & browserising is done on my Linux pooters
- i will never use any google service by choice
- i never use qr codes
🤔🤷♀️
ta anyway.
plasticine_era@msdropbear @jerry @briankrebs @ricci @allpoints
I don't know if this particular one is any good/secure ..but there are TOTP code apps for linux (like this one) you could check out if you don't want to go the phone based route. You may need a camera if you want to import QR codes.
https://github.com/paolostivanin/OTPClient. with instructions https://github.com/paolostivanin/OTPClient/wiki/How-to-use-OTPClient
