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Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by dvtrn »

bsanr2 wrote: post #279
bityard wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't tell if you're being ageist on purpose but "the beards" don't _have_ to use IRCCloud and can just keep using their TUI clients and bouncer daemons if they want instead of having their UX change weekly at the whim of some resume-driven front-end team.

Well, here's one issue: I can tell you what a reply and hashtag is but I'm going to fail the quiz that asks me to define a TUI client. (And don't get the Chrsmistian Fundamentalists hellbent on taking downn Tumblr et al. starter anything involving a "daemon".)

.....what is this comment?

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by meltedcapacitor »

miohtama wrote: post #72
wildpeaks wrote: post #64

On top of it, it's not just a matter of creating an account because they get blocked within two minutes until you also give them your phone number, despite the registration pretends it's not required (because once you signed up, it's easier to trick people into giving up yet more information than asking for it upfront).

Here is a research how much phone number verification decreases account fraud a.k.a. spam bots http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

How is that relevant to read-only access, which is what is reportedly being newly blocked?

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by dragontamer »

smhenderson wrote: post #322
habibur wrote: post #293

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We need to revive the ad free, commercial interest free Internet of the 90s. It will be small in size, but so was the internet back then. Someone should come up with a pub-sub distribute micro blogging service like how emails work.

pub-sub distribute micro blogging service like how emails work It's called NNTP

More commonly known as Usenet. (Or maybe google groups, lol)

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by powvans »

arsome wrote: post #230
hn_99 wrote: post #224

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Interesting. As someone who hasn't done any mobile dev at all, is there a way to prevent something like this from happening? Can't you somehow encrypt such secrets in the app?

You can try, but you won't succeed against a dedicated reverse engineer, simply dropping a hook in on the API calls would be enough to grab the decrypted key in a case like that, if not simply statically reading the encryption keys and decrypting it. That's not to say it's useless - some reversers will simply move on to the next app when there's a list of dozens. You can also send requests via your own server, which…

Mobile developers can implement certificate pinning to prevent man in the middle snooping. Twitter's app does this.

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Post by CodeGlitch »

hughrr wrote: post #71
AlwaysRock wrote: post #4

When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.

Yes this. Life is getting progressively better now Twitter, Reddit and Apple pissed me off. I’ve got more time, money and a healthier outlook on life. Now if only I could shake HN.

I use RSS to stay updated on news. Complete control over what I receive.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by Brendinooo »

splatcollision wrote: post #231
bastard_op wrote: post #110

So can people please quit posting twitter feeds finally? Some of us still have never used or signed up with twitter, or feel the need to, and really don't want to. Bad enough they removed non-javascript access, since they are permablocked through noscript here, I simply close postings on HN that link there and curse them for bothering. Asking for a login atop that is just a 4x non-starter for "news" links. Yes, some…

It would be great if the community here just started downvoting stories that are twitter links. If it's not worth a blog post somewhere, why should we care?

Microblogging is no less legitimate than blogging.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by arsome »

xvector wrote: post #340
hn_99 wrote: post #224

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Interesting. As someone who hasn't done any mobile dev at all, is there a way to prevent something like this from happening? Can't you somehow encrypt such secrets in the app?

I believe solutions like SafetyNet on Android might help here. AFAIK no one has successfully reversed SafetyNet enough to spoof it.

Unless an API you're looking at requires/supports attestation via SafetyNet or you're willing to proxy via your own server this is likely not an option.

Additionally, while it's true (to my knowledge) that re-implementing a full safteynet spoof is not currently publicly available, a combination of Frida and MagiskHide is able to bypass SafetyNet for dynamic RE purposes, just launch the app as normal with MagiskHide enabled then attach to it with Frida as root. If they enforce full hardware attestation this may change in the future, but right now we're good.

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Post by blacktriangle »

HWR_14 wrote: post #327
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #225

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Because IRC hasn't meaningfully improved in about 30 years. There have been attempts to make it friendlier with things like IRCCloud, but then the beards just scoff at the idea of a $5/month bouncer-as-a-service and go right back to wondering why the protocol is dying.

What does IRC lack that is an improvement you missed in the last 30 years?

I think the lack of channel history is a big showstopper for many people but personally I think that's a feature. The idea that I should have to dig through slack history and its rambling conversation format to find information pertinent to my work is downright dumb.
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