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Re:Cactus Comments: Federated web comments based on Matrix p... by michaelsbradley on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:06PM (#26372767)
When I followed the link in Firefox with the MetaMask extension installed and enabled, I was greeted with MetaMask's Ethereum Phishing Detection page:

https://i.imgur.com/DSiut95.jpg

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Re:Cactus Comments: Federated web comments based on Matrix p... by michaelsbradley on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:38PM (#26372921)
It seems to be a false positive in the phishing detector:

https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/issues/4749

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Re:Cactus Comments: Federated web comments based on Matrix p... by iudqnolq on Sunday March 07, 2021 @06:05PM (#26380672)
The detector is about twenty (inefficient) lines. Cauctus was flagged because it's similar "cactus" is similar to "auctus", which is on their known good list of domains they're checking for impersonations of.

https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/blob/master/...

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Re:Cactus Comments: Federated web comments based on Matrix p... by detaro on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:42PM (#26372943)
looking at the GH issues on that extension, false positives seems to be the name of the game there...
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