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

submitted 2 years ago by Scientician@waveform.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is something I really like Mastodon for. The good apps will go through standard OAuth authentication rather than username/password authentication, which also means you can use passkeys/2FA to protect your account which apps often don't bother implementing in any way.

That said, who's to say the in-app browser window you're entering your password into is really your browser and not just a malicious Chrome build the evil app developers added to mislead you? There's a slightly elevated risk with storing your password in every app, but malicious app developers will be able to phish you regardless.

[–] Blunon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The way Reddit did this was by just giving out a token, that could be done in the same way here on lemmy, I think that would solve the issue.

Now it’s true that you will be redirected to the site (here lemmy) but that’s the same on all services, as a user one needs to check the host name and certificate of the site they’re directed to.