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You're making an argument for why Mastodon is more immune here and not less. Since there are many different servers administered in different ways by many diffe
by yogthos 6y ago
You're making an argument for why Mastodon is more immune here and not less. Since there are many different servers administered in different ways by many different users, you have to infiltrate each server on case by case basis. This is orders of magnitude more effort than compromising a single administrator and getting access to the entire network.
- solidasparagus 6y agoI think the point is that good security takes effort and that is something that economies of scale help with. When each instance is run by a single administrator, it is much harder for anyone to have high quality security,
- yogthos 6y agoCounterpoint is that a distributed system doesn't have a central point of failure, so the effort to subvert the entire network is significantly more involved. So, as everything it's trade offs, but a distributed system will be more robust overall.