• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    It’s not a glitched friend request notification.

    It’s a native friend request that you make through discord. The vulnerability lies in the attacker making a unique pfp for each request, forcing the CDN to cache the pfp at the closest data center to the user.

    I would agree that it’s not fully deanonymizing but it could resurrect tracking Elon and other billionaires.