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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 12:41:41 JST Evan Prodromou

   It's important that ActivityPub developers include data integrity checks for inbound activities.

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     Jordan (jwf@cybervillains.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 07:30:16 JST Jordan

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     • naturzukunft

     @naturzukunft @evan yes! Please elaborate.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 07:30:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jordan

     @jwf @naturzukunft I'm writing a book about ActivityPub. I am working on the section of the chapter about inbound activities that deals with data integrity checks. I needed an example URL to show the importance of checks. In the book, I use the text, "Data integrity is no big deal, don't bother checking" for this Note.

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     naturzukunft (naturzukunft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 07:30:17 JST naturzukunft

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     @evan Hey Evan, can you explain that a bit ?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 07:40:30 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Scott M. Stolz

     @scott both of those, and also that there are not intentional fibs in there. Naive implementations may suffer from cache poisoning attacks.

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     Scott M. Stolz (scott@authorship.studio)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 07:40:37 JST Scott M. Stolz

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     Are you talking about making sure that an incoming message is not corrupted, or are you talking about making sure the sender is who they say they are, or both?