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"In July 2019, Gab switched its software infrastructure to a Mastodon fork, a free and open-source social network platform." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(
by grandpoobah 6y ago
"In July 2019, Gab switched its software infrastructure to a Mastodon fork, a free and open-source social network platform."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
I wonder if the SQL injection was present in Mastodon?
Super paranoid question - I wonder if one of the Mastodon coders poisoned the Mastodon source code in the hopes that Gab would pull and merge the changes?
- weare138 6y ago>Super paranoid question - I wonder if one of the Mastodon coders poisoned the Mastodon source code in the hopes that Gab would pull and merge the changes? I highly doubt that. It's a fairly large open-source software project, slipping a backdoor into the codebase via a patch wouldn't go unnoticed. The Wikipedia article you linked to states Gab uses a fork of Mastodon. I would lean towards this being a bug introduced in Gab's fork or a patched bug in Mastodon not ported to their fork, assuming that was even the attack vector. The data could just have been exfiltrated directly via their hosting infrastructure and not related to Mastodon at all.
- tmpz22 6y ago"Instead of a very understandable, rational explanation, what about this conspiracy theory I came up with? What if you know? Think about it. Do your own research".