I don't think it's a bot in the way you're thinking - I **think** the forwarded reports are just rewritten to come from that account (infosec.exchange runs Glitch). Those 7 reports probably came from actual users (and like @GossiTheDog I can totally see why)
Weird. If they were reported all at the same time, it might be that someone just ticked loads in the interface - AIUI people used to do that when mass-reporting on Twitter in the hope it'd mean moderators didn't properly review and suspended/blocked
The one "good" thing in this is the comment from the guy about how his son found out, called him a troll and he's done it less out of fear of being labelled.
Sadly, the fact that it's blokes going for an "easy target" is no surprise
In which #AmazonUK (with the inadvertant help of #AmericanExpress) attempt to try and screw me out of nearly £500 after someone in Amazon's delivery chain stole our order
Note: I'd greatly appreciate it if people could boost the ever-living hell out of this one to try and stop the next victim from happening
I have similar concerns about parental control software. So many of the offerings involve location tracking and similar - it's not *right* for a parent to give up their child's privacy like that.
The middle ground I settled on, of all things, was Microsoft Family Safety - they *can* do location tracking but it's off by default (and needs opting into on device).
But it still suffers from over/underblocking like everything else.
You know, whilst I'm sure it's technically legal, "We've scraped your email address out of #Git commits and are using AI to point sales people your way" just doesn't feel like it's really in the spirit of #GDPR.
It seems they already know about it and don't consider it and don't consider it a #threat, but #ATProtocol and Bluesky have the potential to pose some #InfoSec threats:
- Preview card content is under the control of the poster, so can be populated with #misinformation
- Link Anchor text and destination are controllable by the poster, allowing misleading links to be published
New #blog: Autodetecting and Announcing #Mastodon Scrapers and Crawlers
There've been quite a few #fedisearch issues recently, but the common thread is that there's usually a gap in reporting - they're often live for weeks before people are made aware.
It's not just people's pet projects either, there are other #scrapers active, quietly consuming posts
So, I built a bot to detect and out them so that fedi admins can block as necessary
I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's.I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering.I mostly talk about #Tech, #Monitoring, #SoftwareDevelopment, #Privacy & #SecurityIf you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month (https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opinion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html)