Extinction looms for FTAV’s Mastodon presence

  • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I mean I don’t care I’m not saying anything illegal anyway, and I assumed reddit administration could read messages, I’m just surprised. I assumed because of how lemmy started and the whole idea of taking away drastic overreach by admins that private messages would be set up to be… private.

    • stevecrox@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The admins to perform upgrades, monitoring, fixes, etc… will require root access to the database. That means they can alter all your posts to say *blah blah blah" if they wanted.

      Similarly passwords will be encrypted within the database and encryption algorithms have to be able to go in both directions. Normally they need a seed value to start random generation. The admin defines the seed as a result an admin can decrypt everything in the database.