Zarobi

@Zarobi@aussie.zone · Joined ⁨Jun⁩ ⁨2026⁩

Replying to @⁨themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩

I know, but a lot of people don’t click the article, they just look at headline + comments, so it’s still a reduction of visibility or an extra step. My comment is like exposing the endpoint right there front and centre. Plus, I don’t like being personally responsible for any data breach. Maybe it’s just a tiny thing but it felt like the right thing to do

Replying to @⁨stermy4u@lemmy.world⁩

the API endpoint GET [redacted] will return user data for any account - not just your own account - so long as you supply a valid, five-digit user ID. It doesn’t perform any authorization check or ownership validation. “Just increment the number and get someone else’s data,” she wrote.

This data includes users’ email addresses, first and last names, country, dates of birth, and whether the account has been deleted, and the API exposes all 719,517 accounts on the prayer site. “With sequential user IDs and no rate limiting, an attacker could enumerate every single account on the platform,” the hacker explained. “One GET request per user. for i in range(1, 719518): scrape(). That’s it. That’s the exploit.”

My God, that’s horrific. Plus it doesn’t even delete your data if you delete your account, it’s still vulnerable.

Replying to @⁨webghost0101@sopuli.xyz⁩

Yes this is what A.I. does. It shows you a somewhat glitchy alternate reality where that photo is coloured in instead of black and white. So it might do seemingly strange things like upgrading technology and clothes and stuff to match what people wore when colour photos were a thing.

However, it’s relatively trivial to take the A.I. photo and use it as a colour-only layer in Photoshop, while preserving the original grayscale photograph as the source of truth. It might not line up perfectly but you can smudge it around a bit to fit.

Replying to @⁨dogslayeggs@lemmy.world⁩

I completely deleted my Reddit account, which is not a decision I took lightly, after more than 10 years of using that website frequently. I didn’t use any of the purge apps, my comments can be fossilized under [deleted] incase it helps anyone.

Makes me wonder if that’s a good indication of quality? I highly doubt bot accounts and astroturfers would ever delete their account, it’s too valuable for them. Deleted users are kind of verified human in a way.