this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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I think for a while leading up to the recent session stealing hack, there has been a massive amount of positivity from Lemmy users around all kinds of new Lemmy apps, frontends, and tools that have been popping up lately.

Positivity is great, but please be aware that basically all of these things work by asking for complete access to your account. When you enter your Lemmy password into any third party tool, they are not just getting access to your session (which is what was stolen from some users during the recent hack), they also get the ability to generate more sessions in the future without your knowledge. This means that even if an admin resets all sessions and kicks all users out, anybody with your password can of course still take over your account!

This isn't to say that any current Lemmy app developers are for sure out to get you, but at this point, it's quite clear that there are malicious folks out there. Creating a Lemmy app seems like a completely easy vector to attack users right now, considering how trusting everybody has been. So please be careful about what code you run on your devices, and who you trust with your credentials!

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[โ€“] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All of the apps have you enter your credentials into their page because Lemmy doesn't support OAuth2. I don't think it's fair to criticize Voyager for a problem that is currently inherent to all Lemmy apps.

[โ€“] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yea but it's a local form on the device and not a 3rd party server, which is another layer of insecurity. And I'm not sure how much of the rest of communication needs to get proxied too.

I dunno, that's just way beyond my comfort zone unless I really want to self-host that stuff.

Anyway, okay, nothing seems to be all that well secure at this point.