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Not to any meaningful degree. You’re better off at Vintage Stock tbh

They would also be instantly defederated by like 90% of the fediverse

The fact that that person happened to be looking on a system downstream to this one, while also having the context needed to pin it back to xz in particular is the lucky part. The same attack in any of countless other places wouldn’t have gotten spotted the same way, or as quickly. That’s not to say diligence on Freund’s part wasn’t a big factor here, but it’s important to identify that luck was a big factor.

Yeah, identity is a real problem, but someone posted a proposal to solve for that that looks perfect for this sort of thing. Wish I remembered what it was called, but basically each account could attest for the others via export of encryption keys/signatures so while you has multiple ‘accounts’ there was only one identity which was pointed to in the signature blob.

The tricky part would be getting everyone (matrix, lemmy/kbin/mbin, pixel fed, and masto) to conform to a single identity standard. If one existed, I could see them implementing it, but we’re not there yet.

I can sort of see why a chat client wouldn’t have a use for activitypub/federation, with the possible exception of identity sharing once that starts to take off.

So it would have put him in danger.

I can see why it was veto’d.

Hey, I resemble that remark!

This. Usually we’re bitching about the feds just ignoring basic development principles and making shit up as they go along like there wasn’t 30 years of hard learned lessons to lean on; this is the first time I can think of where what they’re doing actually makes some sense.

It would not*

*Does not apply in the 5th circuit

I don’t know where you got that 20% statistic, but everything I’ve read and can find on short notice has it up around 70%.

No, i know, but my point was if you were designing a wall material to block 5ghz you would end up with plaster on wire mesh. Couldn’t have been better if it were on purpose

That chicken wire could have been intentionally designed to absorb 5ghz signal, and is death to it. Literally any other material would be fine up to 3 rooms away depending on the noise floor in the space. 6ghz /might/ be able to punch through depending on the width of the space between the wires though, and might be worth exploring in your case.