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Re:How Turtl has no idea when you're sharing copyrighted stuff by typicalbender on Monday March 31, 2014 @12:11AM (#7499576)
The request can be signed and then checked for authentication on the back end. Using public key encryption it would be sent safely to the server and checked for authenticity.
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Re:How Turtl has no idea when you're sharing copyrighted stuff by icebraining on Monday March 31, 2014 @04:17AM (#7500287)
Signed by whom? The app running on the client's machine? One should know better than to trust that.
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