It requires an extra click to get to the actual website.
PuTTY's website is fairly clean and accessible, unlike this landing page.
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Browsers have been giving you the ability to view what the actual link URL is since forever.
There is the homograph attack, but browsers do their best to mitigate it nowadays.
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The guy behind that page and bitvise appears to have gone totally crazy during the pandemic. On his blog, he said in 2021 "I forecast that 2/3 of those who accept Covid vaccines are going to die by January 1, 2025." And in 2022, he wrote "Covid-19 is mostly snake venom added to drinking water in selected locations. There may also be a virus, but the main vehicle of hospitalizations is boatloads of powder, mixed in du…
> mixed in during 'water treatment.' Remdesivir, the main treatment for Covid, is injected snake venom. mRNA vaccines hijack your body to make more snake ven Whaaaaat the fuuuuuuck Can anyone debug this statement?? I’m not looped into weird this realm of paranoid delusion torecognizs what they’re referring to here.
There's no sense debugging the output when the hardware that produced it is clearly defective.
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#176Come on, AI can make a better looking site in 10 minutes these days.
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This seems similar to the Notepad++ team using their platform to promote political viewpoints. The same thing happened with Facebook "pages", when they became a personal "soap box" by the owner of the page. It was downhill from there... You might as well turn the whole web into FB/Twitter/X/Insta promotional spam at that point.
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You mean that ironically or seriously?
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So you have read that page and understand its purpose is to link social media profiles for informational purposes, but don't understand that it's not suitable for any kind of auth, let alone in a software supply chain?
By the XFN spec, it "demonstrates that the same person has control over [the pages]". The docs page I linked links to two further specs for using it for authentication in the way that Mastodon does.
I'm sorry. The XHTML Friends Network rel tag is neither reliable identification nor authentication. It's designed to say "this is my blog" in low stakes environments.
No sane sober person would use it to authenticate messages about changing URLs in a software supply chain.
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It was bad enough that we had to tell developers to trust some rando website to download a tool that we'd use to potentially plug in sensitive production usernames + credentials. A link that looks like this: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht... And now they've gone and made it worse by posting some new site and confirming the new link is real on their weird "hachyderm" social media post thi…
> on their weird "hachyderm" social media post thing At this point tech people should understand what Mastodon is. For their own benefit. It's been years.
10 MM MAU estimated. Not exactly foundational to online discourse.