Yeah2206

joined 1 year ago
[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

There are some apps (like video player) that if you open it, the screen won't lock. Because it's hard to figure out which screen wouldn't lock, I enable the Accessibility feature which has a lock button in it. I also put in a "Lock" button in the same location on all my home screens. I lock the phone manually except on the screen I know for sure the phone will lock automatically.

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

XSS vulnerbility hack. From a mod:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/766402

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

Topped with lots of cream?

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

Thank you. That's a very nice summary.

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When it's auctioned, it would become the most valuable small pile of s... in the world.

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thx for replying. Would you expand on the idea why VPN wouldn't help with increasing the person's privacy?

BTW, I have tried logging in using Tor. It pretty much works normally but slightly more slowly. Of course, Tor throws more fits depending on how the connection is created, so you are right, I personally would hate having to use it regularly.

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thx for the reply. For the sake of discussions here, if someone think they can increase the privacy by always using Tor to access all the fediverse accounts, and let's just assume they don't ever miss (for me, this probably is unlikely). How do you think this increases linkability to their ... ?

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I think this makes sense when you trust your VPN provider more than your ISP/government.

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thx for the reply. I probably wouldn't want discuss anything indicating illegal activities or political activism on the Fediverse. I think Reddit was just demanded to turn over some (subset?) of discussions about copyright piracy. They might get away without the subpoena altogether on the fediverse arguing the data is already public.

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also, isn't onion service pretty much used to hide the server's IP, but doesn't do much about hiding anything for the end users?

 

Hello,

Since your Lemmy posts, comments, related activities, and your basic profile information will be stored in the databases across the fediverse, possibly never to be deleted (or kept by somebody who can), do you:

  1. Always use Tor/VPN with a fediverse app?
  2. Recommend others do the same?

If you feel that it is unnecessary, why do you feel that way? If you think it is necessary, why so?

Thanks. I am trying to get a feel of what I should do. For example, if my instance loses its data (due to a hack, sale, vulnerability, etc.), I am pretty sure all the information is lost (including my IP addresses). If other instances lose their data, or keep the data for their own purposes, then my posts/comments/related activities are lost (maybe excluding some of my profile information, my settings, and my IP addresses).

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe if the expected phenomena don't take place, then some weeds may help.

[–] Yeah2206@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I looked. I'd guess the ones with 0 votes are posts done by bots, possibly powered by AI. The one I looked closely posted and commented to get karma points to get past the filters to post promotions/scams in other subs. The mods, including spez himself, are not doing any filtering. I am not sure if any is done for protest, but I only looked closely at one.

edited: grammar

 

I have questions about the native web interface.

What do you do to keep track of posts you have seen? i.e. You like the post, would like to see more discussions, how to keep track of them? On Reddit, you can click the Bell button and be notified/emailed about the follow-ups. On Lemmy, I've been hitting the save button to go back and look.

What do you do to keep track of comments? On Reddit, you can "Follow" the comment and be notified/emailed about the responses. On Lemmy, ~~I can't keep track of them, except via the Save button for the entire post above~~ there is a save button on each comment as well..

Thanks!

edited: there is save button on each comment.

Partial solution: use Save button for Post or Comment, and sort the comments by whichever way to let you see new/interesting comments.

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