Submitted 1 year ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
“Attackers, Trellix wrote, use the platform’s webhooks to pull data from victims’ computers and drop it into Discord channels run by the attackers.”
This is… annoying. I get the intent for malware, but honestly it’s a BS reason. The content will just be uploaded elsewhere. But what this will do is drastically lower their storage cost under the guise of… not even user safety, more “slightly inconveniencing malware writers.”
I don’t care what you say, Discord is terrible.
It’s just like IRC but with privacy violations and ads!
More like Mumble, but with privacy violations and ads
And without an ability to host the network yourself!
lol@ this. My bet what is actually happening: cost cutting or future nitro feature.
It’s an annoying change for anyone using discord to share files outside of it’s closed platform but doesn’t affect most people.
I wonder whether bridges for matrix have to be fixed or if they’re already editing messages bridged to matrix to the new url.
Depends on how it’s implemented. Anyone using a “media proxy” will see their discord bridged media probably fail to load (outside of possible caches) after a day. Anyone who has their bridge configured to reupload discord media to their homeserver should see no change.
What is this bridge you speak of? I’m intrigued. Does matrix have a functionality that lets you run a mirror of a discord channel?
Interesting news but I don’t really get how this is self-hosted?
Honestly, I’m okay with this at least until they fix the fact that all shared files are accessible without authentication. Granted, you still had to get the link before downloading an uploaded file, but the fact that there was no authentication required to download a file uploaded to Discord was pretty surprising.
It’s probably also way cheaper to do it that way. As far as I could tell when I checked in on it some time ago, most of the content goes through a Cloudflare proxy straight to a GCP S3-compatible bucket.
You still need to know magical numbers to download file.
And a LOT risky
What is a password? A string of characters. What is a link? A string of characters.
If you make it long enough, it’ll be impossible to guess one.
Your files are safe
Trying to keep those classified documents on the DL for home grown radical terror.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I always thought it was a bad idea for people to treat Discord as a free CDN.
unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I mean it worked for long enough 🤷♂️
nephs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If its going away now, it isn’t quite long enough…