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people have been talking about how relays can record IP addresses of users, and for reasons of hating whoever it is that reposts the first ever nostr note event "running branle" i refactored my reverse proxy to add the X-Forwarded-For field with the remote address and changed the websocket implementation to store that field if it is present and for the websocket logging to print the IP address

it only took me about half an hour's work to change the code on the reverse proxy and my relay to do this, so yeah... relays can definitely be snarfing all your home and mobile IP addresses and that means that #nostr client devs should be a bit more thoughtful about automatically using relays on behalf of their users!

#privacy #devstr

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matata 1y ago

mobile wifi?

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matata 1y ago

oh i mean IP lol

mobile IP?

does vpn also help for covering that?

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BHN 🍁 1y ago

Yes. You can see the change at http://whatsmyipaddress.com or https://whatsmyip.com/

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