@tari_alfaro@mastodon.technology Usually, as a badly-thought-out "security measure", to try and prevent things like shell injection on the server side (when the correct way to solve this would have been either a better process API, or at least escaping).

It's worth noting that minds.com definitely falls into the "clueless about security" bracket. They have quite some... history (also in the area of sketchy business practices), and are hilariously incompetent.

Sources:
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pga9xz/that-social-network-app-backed-by-anonymous-uses-weak-encryption
- https://medium.com/your-anon-central/anonymous-does-not-support-minds-minds-com-3248a3d46ba7