Just Some Social Media Jumping
Jan. 30th, 2021 02:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorSo after it's public release, Pillowfort quickly took the site down after a number of white hat hackers exposed various security bugs in the system. They briefly put the site back up again yesterday (Jan 29), but took it down again the same day after more bugs were exposed. So now they'll be down a bit.
For me, this is not too much of a concern, and most of the security issues, while serious, seemed to be reputational in nature (a user being able to impersonate another) or involving access rather than privacy breaches. Still, I hope this will spur them to consider site security first going forward rather than attending to it after the fact. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, after all.
Meanwhile, I can post and talk with people here, so that's what I'll do. The nice part of being on multiple social media sites is that if one goes down, I can just use another.
For me, this is not too much of a concern, and most of the security issues, while serious, seemed to be reputational in nature (a user being able to impersonate another) or involving access rather than privacy breaches. Still, I hope this will spur them to consider site security first going forward rather than attending to it after the fact. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, after all.
Meanwhile, I can post and talk with people here, so that's what I'll do. The nice part of being on multiple social media sites is that if one goes down, I can just use another.