Post #3145167
2025-01-21 22:25 UTC
If you are still worried about this, my read of it is that these things might make the attack more difficult:
👉 turn off automatic downloading of media files
This makes this attack rely on you clicking the image to download it, making it very difficult for the attacker to know when to check for the cached status of the resource.
This is important, because for each attachment the attacker can only ask this question once per the period Cloudflare caches these resources (not sure exactly).
Replies (1)
-
@rysiek@mstdn.social 2025-01-21 22:27
You can also: 👉 turn off push notifications – this makes the attack rely on you clicking the chat to download the image 👉 turn off read receipts – again, this makes it more difficult for the attacker to know when to ask the question they can only ask once per a specific period of time 👉 use Signal over Tor or a VPN to obscure your actual location – the attacker would get the rough location of the exit node