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What if the hackers come for us?

Gab - hacked. Truth social - hacked. What if they come for us? The rdrama codebase probably isn't perfectly secure! Chrome or firefox has layers of sandboxes, a hundred different gadgets like 'stack protection' or 'W xor X', and still has a new RCE every week. rdrama can probably be trivially owned if someone googles all the dependency versions for a few hours. also, lol commit history, 'sneed'. If that happens - what leaks? i guess just associations between stored ip addresses (if they are) and post histories. And IP can reveal a lot, or nothing, depending on where you live, ISP, etc. Combine that with a post history referencing improvements you made to your house or your occupation ... might be bad.

Practically, seems incredibly unlikely anyone will care enough to do anything, it's a small community and the essay format gets in the way of 'omg these rightwingers grr'. But, always good to ponder potential security issues. Also, you wanted content, so content.

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  1. We aren't important enough. We have about a dozen thousand users that do not-much more than words-words-words in a closed community.

  2. We have some pretty good programmers onboard. The codebase is probably not clean right now, but I think it's a matter of time.

I haven't looked at the codebase, but if it's not clean now I think the default is it does not become clean. If it's not secure now I think the default is it does not become secure. Having good programmers on board makes non-default results slightly more accessible, but doesn't make them default.