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Re:AI slop security engineering: Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles on Friday November 21, 2025 @02:00PM (#46007665)
(authentik maintainer here) It does! Also, not only in the authentication process, but also during individual authorization flows, and in a few other places as well, like when a user edits their settings, or whenever an event (basically whenever something happens in authentik) but that's more a reactive process than inline
Re:Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024) on Monday May 05, 2025 @09:42PM (#43901090)
I do things somewhat similarly but still rely on Helm/customize/ArgoCD as it's what I know best. I don't have a documentation to offer, but I do have all of it publicly at https://gitlab.com/lama-corp/infra/infrastructure It's probably a bit more involved than your OP's setup as I operate my own AS, but hopefully you'll find some interesting things in there.
Re:A powerful free and open source WAF – UUSEC WAF on Sunday March 16, 2025 @03:00PM (#43381278)
Those guys are also opening "ad" issues on unrelated repositories[0]. Adding that to what others mentioned, it really doesn't inspire confidence in the software

https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/issues/13521

Re:The Secret Poker Game You Can Play on the Subway on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @01:54PM (#43105869)
According to Balatro, it does
Re:Home Assistant can not be secured for internet access on Sunday December 15, 2024 @10:13AM (#42423834)
The HA maintainers also refuse anything that has to do with SSO. I'm not even talking about implementing it themselves, there have been many contributions over the years to add OAuth support
So they made bad architecture decisions, blamed it on Kubernetes for some reason, and then decided to rebuild everything from scratch. Solid. The takeaway being what? Don't make bad decisions?
Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @07:09AM (#40716325)
> Sorry, I don't follow. Am I misreading something? To me the the quoted text says the opposite.

Yeah me too. But how would the provider report CSAM content if they are not obliged to break encryption? I don't really follow the Regulation on that part.

Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow on Monday June 17, 2024 @09:48PM (#40713296)
You only really answer question 2 of your parent, and they obviously meant for someone operating a Matrix server with regards to their users. It's pretty well summarized in Patrick Breyer's sumary page[0]:

> Only non-commercial services that are not ad-funded, such as many open source software, are out of scope

> How do you even ensure a client is actually self-reporting?

This is an interesting technical question whether or not it's covered by the actual proposal. How do you ensure that Messenger for instance is

1. actually doing the reporting, and not someone simply bypassing the app to keep sending e2ee chats without them being client-side scanned. That would most likely be against ToS and accounts would maybe get banned if doing so

2. prevent against spam reporting, where someone could basically DoS the reporting service with false positives

> If a photo are flagged, will it appear in a GDPR access request?

There are a bunch of dispositions in the draft concerning personal data protection (ctrl+f personal data to find the relevant articles). It also states pretty much everywhere that processing should be done in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679, more commonly known as GDPR.

[0] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

What really bugs me though, is this:

> Having regard to the availability of technologies that can be used to meet the requirements of this Regulation whilst still allowing for end-to-end encryption, nothing in this Regulation should be interpreted as prohibiting, requiring to disable, or making end-to-end encryption impossible. Providers should remain free to offer services using end-to-end encryption and should not be obliged by this Regulation to decrypt data or create access to end-to-end encrypted data

I believe this was added as a request from France, which didn't want E2EE to be undermined by this proposal. However, the provider would need to "create access to end-to-end encrypted data" to report it to the EU Centre. Although the following article states that E2EE can still be used if you don't send images, videos and URLs, so I guess that's the compromise?

Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow on Monday June 17, 2024 @09:16PM (#40713102)
What would you suggest to citizens from other member states (France in my case) to do to sway representatives against this?
This looks so much better than everything out there.

Only thing that irritates me is sso being locked behind a paid offering. No one should be required to pay for proper security when you offer a free option.

Not very open source though
Re:Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx on Sunday February 11, 2024 @09:56AM (#39335372)
Authentik dev here, AMA
Re:Restic – Simple Backups on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:01AM (#38927606)
I found [0] for restic + rclone.

I personally use this Ansible role [1] to deploy restic and then just configure my buckets with the ACLs described in the README and a lifecycle policy so that an override of a file creates a new version instead. Currently I have it so old versions expire on their own, and no one except the account admin can delete them.

[0] https://ruderich.org/simon/notes/append-only-backups-with-re... [1] https://gitlab.com/byh0ki-org/infra/ansible/roles/restic/

Re:Restic – Simple Backups on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:53PM (#38922485)
You can achieve append only with restic with S3, proper access rules and lifecycle policies
Re:MongoDB is actively investigating a security incident on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:58AM (#38670678)
So basically nothing Django and a postures db can't do.
Authentik dev here, AMA
Re:Ask HN: What're the craziest hacks you've done to launch? on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:28AM (#34555432)
You sir, are a legend.
Anyone have experience with using SSHFP records to avoid the so-called anti pattern of trust on first use?
21yo here, I think Kerberos is bloody awesome, but then I was introduced to it by a somewhat old timer, who showed me its benefits when properly integrated in the company.
Re:How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb? on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:23PM (#25376667)
7 users advise to turn off IPv6
Re:How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb? on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:22PM (#25376651)
Well he also uses the GNU/Lightbulb, so that's a yes
I hate the way a lot of tools nowadays assume it's okay to just create a new directory in the user's home. For instance, this tools create ~/.import-cache. Why doesn't it use a subdirectory in ~/.cache? What's the next step? ~/.import-config? And then ~/import-tmp? This is just getting out of hand. There are places where your tool can store config and cache data, use them.