I just found a security breach that can leak thousands of emails on a website!!
Today, I snooped around on a website I won’t mention the name of for privacy reasons, and they assign your account an user ID when you register.
Well, with a very simple trick in the console I managed to get everyone else’s email and account info (for example checking if they have a paid plan or not) by just lowering the user id, with no rate-limit on the endpoint!
So a bad actor could send targetted phishing emails to people by telling them there is a problem with their payment!
It’s funny because on their homepage, they state they use “Military grade encryption” (whatever that means!), and their privacy policy says “We encrypt the transmission of that information” (does that just mean they do it over https?)
So, moral of the story, don’t trust companies with your personal info!
I contacted the site, we’ll see if they fix it.
Is this AI? Something feels off.
That’s not very similar to how AI typically writes, at all.
@CodenameDarlen I’m glad I write well enough to be confused with AI but no, I haven’t even used any em dashes! 😉
Hey… I use alot of em dashes in my notes and I really like em ! I hate that everyone associate em-dashes with ai written stuff (even if it’s true !)
Rantoff
Ya, I was thinking about using more em-dashes because there neat, then AI took off
Seeing your profile you manifest an exclusive behavior like using hashtags and tagging communities very often on posts and comments, it seems something only an AI would care about. Too much correctness.
@CodenameDarlen It’s because I post on mastodon : My instance is furries.club (check my username) and that’s a Mastodon instance that works with hashtags to find posts. Instead of writing the same post multiple times, I use instead the 𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬 𝓸𝓯 𝓯𝓮𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 to write the post only once with hashtags and by tagging the Lemmy community so that it also gets posted there, and people who comment in one platform will also have their comment show up on the other platform.
Peak use of technology
Whenever you see a user starting their reply with a tag for the user they’re replying to, you’re interacting with a threadiverse user, usually mastodon or pixelfed
Not in all cases actually, as is shown by this reply! Mastodon just defaults to including the @ of the person you are replying to, so they get a notification, but it works without!