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Emanuel Bronshtein
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Security Researcher, Free-software/Ethical-design advocate, Making the world a safer place.
wilkie (quilt appreciator)A friend works on the Social Media Alternatives Project (S-MAP) https://www.socialmediaalternatives.org/?page_id=30 which is looking for contributors. That applies to... like... a lot of you on here.
Micah LeeI've published a technical explanation of how to get unsandboxed arbitrary code execution in Subgraph OS, and how this attack compares with Qubes https://micahflee.com/2017/04/breaking-the-security-model-of-subgraph-os/ cc @rootkovska
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Chris MartinIt's actually really awesome that Mastodon attracted a shitload of users who largely aren't aware that the underlying GNUSocial platform is old.
You know why?
Because it means we can do this over and over.
Every time someone releases a new implementation with different-looking chrome on top, it can go through its own marketing and media cycle and garner new users. *And the network effect will be cumulative.*