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How do we remove malicious remote aliases from being advertised in m.room.aliases for a room? (SPEC-335) #625

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matrixbot opened this issue Jan 21, 2016 · 3 comments
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How do we remove malicious remote aliases from being advertised in m.room.aliases for a room? (SPEC-335) #625

matrixbot opened this issue Jan 21, 2016 · 3 comments
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Submitted by @​irc_Arathorn:openmarket.com

(Imported from https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SPEC-335)
@matrixbot matrixbot changed the title How do we remove malicious remote aliases from being advertised in m.room.aliases for a room? How do we remove malicious remote aliases from being advertised in m.room.aliases for a room? (SPEC-335) Oct 31, 2016
@matrixbot matrixbot added spec-bug Something which is in the spec, but is wrong feature Suggestion for a significant extension which needs considerable consideration and removed spec-bug Something which is in the spec, but is wrong labels Nov 7, 2016
@turt2live turt2live added the client-server Client-Server API label Feb 6, 2019
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pakman commented Oct 9, 2019

I found this in a public room - when I pointed this out, among the comments were: "if a room admin can't delete aliases created by other homeservers that would be... unfortunate". Is there any prospect of giving room admins some more control over how their rooms are presented on the local server?

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richvdh commented Oct 10, 2019

MSC2261 is intended to help in this area, if we ever get time to work on it. See also MSC2260.

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richvdh commented Jul 21, 2020

this was fixed by MSC2432

@richvdh richvdh closed this as completed Jul 21, 2020
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