#impersonate — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #impersonate, aggregated by home.social.
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#Scientists Asked #AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures. What Happened Next Is a ‘Dire’ Warning
AI #chatbots that were prompted to #impersonate public figures produced responses that people perceived to be more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real thing, a finding that underscores “a dire need to inform the general public of the potential harm this can have on society,” according to a study published on Wednesday in PLOS One.
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#Reddit Ads #Impersonate #BBC and #TheGuardian to Push Fake #AI #Investment Schemes
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Why #ICE Is Allowed to #Impersonate #LawEnforcement
“There's no accountability,” one expert tells WIRED of ICE’s ability to #lie to the public. "The consequence of this is that it’s going to be a systemic harm across all law enforcement.”
#trust #Trump #immigration #dhs #cbphttps://www.wired.com/story/why-ice-is-allowed-to-impersonate-law-enforcement/
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→ Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/“We observed that #Perplexity [an AI-powered answer engine] uses not only their declared #user_agent, but also a generic browser intended to #impersonate Google Chrome on macOS when their declared crawler was blocked.”
“This activity was observed across tens of thousands of domains and millions of requests per day.”
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
“Peace through strength is possible,” Zelensky — Investigation: Despite sanctions, American trucks are being used by Russia to launch kamikaze drones — Unidentified drone enters Lithuania from Belarus amid rising tensions — Ukraine liberates Kindrativka village in Sumy Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/tuesday-july-29-2025/
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#FBI warns of ongoing #scam that uses #deepfake audio to #impersonate government officials
The FBI is warning people to be vigilant of an ongoing malicious messaging campaign that uses AI-generated voice audio to impersonate government officials in an attempt to trick recipients into clicking on links that can infect their computers.
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lexiforest 版的 curl-impersonate 出 v1.0.0rc1
先前在「fork 出來的 curl-impersonate」有提到 curl-impersonate 本來的作者 lwthiker 已經沒在維護了，現在是 lexiforest 版看起來是比較活躍的版本：「lexiforest/curl-impersonate」。 剛剛看到 v1.0.0rc1 的消息，頁面上也提到 breaking change： Breaking changes on v1.0, see release page for details. 看起來比較明顯的是改 binary 的名字這件事情，因為不只支援 chrome 很久了，所以把 binary 裡面 chrome 的名字拿掉： Changed the binary name from (lib)curl-impersonat…
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fork 出來的 curl-impersonate
原來的 lwthiker/curl-impersonate 已經超過一年沒更新了，不過看起來有其他人 fork 出來繼續維護 (以及開發)：「lexiforest/curl-impersonate」。 目前支援的版本還算新，Chrome 支援 133 (目前 stable 最新版是四天前出的 134)，Firefox 支援 135 (目前 stable 最新版是月初出的 136)，其他的幾個瀏覽器看起來也都有跟上。 最近遇到一些網站會擋到 TLS fingerprint，剛好拿這個出來用... …
https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/03/30/12326/fork-%e5%87%ba%e4%be%86%e7%9a%84-curl-impersonate/
#curl #fingerprint #fork #impersonate #latest #ssl #tls #version
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實作更多功能的 curl-impersonate fork
從「Curl-Impersonate (github.com/lexiforest)」這邊看到的消息。
前情提要可以在「修正 Curl 的 TLS handshake，避開 bot 偵測機制」這邊看到，當時介紹了 curl-impersonate 這個專案，可以修改 TLS 的行為 (尤其是 handshake 階段)，讓
#Browser #Computer #GoogleChrome #Murmuring #Network #Privacy #Security #Software #WWW #curl #fingerprint #fork #impersonate #ja3 #ja4 #tls
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Ooof, there's a #critical #security #issue (# CVE-2024-23832) on older #Mastodon #instances where remote attackers can #takeover and #impersonate any account:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-3fjr-858r-92rw
via @heisec: https://www.heise.de/news/Mastodon-Diebstahl-beliebiger-Identitaeten-im-foederierten-Kurznachrichtendienst-9615961.html
Update your instances, friends! 4.2.5 seems to be safe.
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Companies Make it Too Easy for Thieves to #Impersonate Police and Steal Our Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The privilege #escalation flaw (CVE-2023-20105, CVSS score: 9.6), it said, stems from incorrect handling of #password change requests, thereby allowing an #attacker to alter the passwords of any user on the system, including an administrative read-write user, and then #impersonate that user.
#cibersecurity #Cisco #VMware #updates
https://thehackernews.com/2023/06/urgent-security-updates-cisco-and.html?m=1
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One of the good things about getting into #mastodon during this big #twitterMigration is that my name hasn't been taken by the famous #actor or any fans trying to #impersonate him yet on really any #instance
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A #TrustAndSafety problem on #Mastodon is that it's easy for a bad actor to #impersonate someone else by using the same username on a different server.
I've been trying one possible UI improvement to make impersonation easier to spot: to always attach the favicon of the server when showing the username.
Because many servers never change their favicon from the default, to further distinguish servers I also recolor the favicon depending on the server.
Screenshots shows @elk UI before and after.
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I was about to #delete my #BlueBird account. I finally decided now was the time. It’s #toxic over there. But realised that by doing so it would let someone else possibly #impersonate me. So hanging on to my #handle. But I’ve stopped posting and doom-scrolling. I’ve found a nicer place to hang out #Mastodon 😀
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@iddux @yokofakun this is a not-unanticipated HUGE problem with the #decentralized #federated server model of #Mastodon.
It’s so dang easy to #impersonate anyone! Just sign up using their handle on a different server and you’re in. No funny characters or misspellings. No different than email #phishing attacks.
Can any Mastodon proponents address this weakness?
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@MikeBlazer Is this a #showstopper or a #mastodon #designFault leading to #fraud and #impersonation by #imposters using #fakeAccounts ? The fun part of #Twitter was trying to find a unique name !
#impersonate #imposter #fakeAccount
