What are the security issues with the diaspora?

I heard that noise is heard around security problems with the diaspora, can someone summarize what they were?

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Since then, they have fixed many of them, but in fact the entire project was a mess of almost every Internet security in the book. Here is a summary of the problems from the first day their alpha code is released:

  • They never verified that a given user ever had permission to do anything. Therefore, when the user can go to /image/123/delete/to delete their own image (whose identifier was 123), they could simply manually enter the URL /image/1/delete/to delete the image with identifier 1, even if this image was not theirs.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1768130/


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