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Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers (htxt.co.za)
submitted 23 hours ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • Hours after the US airstrike on Iranian territory, Iranian-backed hackers took down US President Donald Trump’s social media platform.
  • Users were struggling to access Truth Social in the early morning following the alleged hack.
  • As the US continues to insert itself into the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, the US government believes more cyberattacks could happen.
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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 63 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 38 points 18 hours ago

nah it's a lazy fork so seeing how he chooses people (they're either cheap or friends of friends or both) "truth" can easily have a totally new security issue

maybe the server has a root password that's "trump454748$$$"

[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 24 points 18 hours ago

This is the saddest good news I've ever read.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Is It Mastodon?! For real? Does it have ActivityPub enabled and all of that?

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 54 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

It is a modified version of Mastodon, with a Soapbox front end. It does not have ActivityPub enabled and lacks a bunch of features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 18 hours ago

The Mastodon developers then formally requested that Truth Social comply with the terms of the software license,[75] with Truth Social publishing its source code as a ZIP file on the website on November 12, 2021.

Lol they actually complied with the license in the end, i didnt know that.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 13 hours ago

I wonder how much of it is vibe coded at this point....

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Never saw security flaw now as a real problem. You just have to live with the fact that there is one. And you will suffer when it's used. Security flaw later is a real problem.