diff --git a/content/posts/harvester/index.md b/content/posts/harvester/index.md index 9855edf..ec42bab 100644 --- a/content/posts/harvester/index.md +++ b/content/posts/harvester/index.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags = ['investigations', 'privacy', 'fediverse'] I'll start with this right away: **please please please please do not harass Tiago. he's just a kid.** He's also seemingly not doing this in bad faith or with inherently malicious intent. Not like that makes it okay, his actions are still very wrong, but please (as the reader) be on your best behavior. -This blog post will be split into two sections, detailing two issues I and [Nyx](https://nyx.girlkisserwx.com) found over a little over one day. The first is the [indiscriminate, wholesale scraping](#scraping-the-fediverse) of the entire fediverse, without anyone's permission or consent, and with the few documented methods to opt-out [not working](#-and-you-cant-even-opt-out). +This blog post will be split into two sections, detailing two issues I and [Nyx](https://girlkisserwx.com) found over a little over one day. The first is the [indiscriminate, wholesale scraping](#scraping-the-fediverse) of the entire fediverse, without anyone's permission or consent, and with the few documented methods to opt-out [not working](#-and-you-cant-even-opt-out). This led to us discovering the [indiscriminate fingerprinting](#harvesting-metasearches) of everyone who uses any instance of Tiago's metasearch engine, which he expressly claims doesn't happen in the README, and sending telemetry (including exact searches, translations, and device information) to an instance of some analytics tool, that's [made to look like a fake Palantir Foundry instance](#pawlantir).