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XSF: XMPP Standards Foundation<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/XSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>XSF</span></a> Announcement</p><p>Recently there was an incident via a so called <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/man_in_the_middle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>man_in_the_middle</span></a> attack happened to an <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>XMPP</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/server" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>server</span></a>.</p><p>To reduce the risk of such attacks in the future an early stage service called CertWatch has been published by our Community: <a href="https://certwatch.xmpp.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">certwatch.xmpp.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Many thanks to Stephen P. Weber (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kumi.tube/accounts/singpolyma" class="u-url mention">@<span>singpolyma</span></a></span>)!</p><p>Read two related blog posts:<br /><a href="http://blog.jmp.chat/b/certwatch/certwatch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.jmp.chat/b/certwatch/cert</span><span class="invisible">watch</span></a></p><p><a href="https://snikket.org/blog/on-the-jabber-ru-mitm/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">snikket.org/blog/on-the-jabber</span><span class="invisible">-ru-mitm/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Jabber" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jabber</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mitm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mitm</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/vulnerability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vulnerability</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/machine_in_the_middle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>machine_in_the_middle</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/chat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chat</span></a></p>