Speaking of apps. Seems like this is a possible attack vector.
Maybe a malicious actor copies code of one of the popular apps (Voyager/wefwef), adds code to extract JWT token or whatever auth token, gathers list of high value targets (admins / mods of large instances or communities), then hijacks instance.
Very easily could have been much worse. On the flip side, glad it was just a script kiddie
National ISPs like Spectrum/Time Warner Cable, AT&T, and Comcast/Xfinity have an oligopoly. They have divided up America into their own markets and purposely avoid entering each other's markets to avoid competing with each other. With no competition, they are free to charge as much as possible, avoid providing good support, and can provide suboptimal service (ie, low and asymmetric download/upload speeds, terrible latency). [1] The problem worsens if you live in suburban or rural areas. Of course there are exceptions where coverage overlaps due to sharing infra, but that is rare and possibly priced in.
👋 - Have mostly been lurking various lemmy instances (beehaw, lemmy.world, …) and finally decided on creating an account here! Looks like I will need to create multiple accounts though due to defederation on some instances. No biggie, lol.
Hope to contribute content here and keep lemmy alive and well even as Reddit management is threatening
many subreddits to open back up.
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