/u/magnora7 - Is this for real? If this is some kind of attack it's next level. I got this private message today, copypasted in the entirety, and I've tried to replicate the formatting and copied the links (I also have a screenshot I'll add).
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csrf token
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=csrf+token
I still don't know what it is. Greek to me. Is it crypto? Is it security? I don't get it.
[–]blowininthewind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
it's a defense measure against various types of impersonation and / or spoofing attaacks online. i can't think of exactly how this is done, but csrf is pretty standard security measure for websites (i used to have this personal site and i have a csrf token because it's a given by django). but it doesn't look like saidit got that on certain pages, and op's problem is kinda related to that kinda attack, at least it's the first thing i thought about checking. so i'm a bit worried.
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