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Hear me out: A Nostr Service where you can send leaked private keys to:

1. delete everything from those keys everywhere

2. watch for new posts from those keys and delete them as well, forever.

The main idea is to block attackers from using your keys.

The second idea is to let everyone know that their info can indeed be deleted at any time if a person gets your key. If you are using relays that accept deletion events, your Nostr content can be purged from existence.

Have your backups. Don't think relays will be there for you when this happens.
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Richard 2y ago

A service to nuke accounts simply gives bad actors an extra incentive to steal keys to totally 'memory hole' dissidents. The protocol should be optimised to allow notes to persist forever IMHO.

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Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

Relays might delete your data at anytime. Especially if you are not paying for storage.

The amount of data will likely force all public/free ones to only host the past ~2 weeks worth of events.

If you are paying, you should probably talk to them to lay for a backup solution as well.

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Ian "nostr.naut.social" D 2y ago

Yes. I run a relay at nostr.naut.social and when it gets busy, I thinking in terms of a 30 day hold, but it could be shorter. Longer for those who pay more:-)

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Richard 2y ago

Indeed. All the more reason to host your own relay with all your data backed up.

Umbrel already offer an easy to spin up ‘app’ option to do this in a self hosted way.

https://apps.umbrel.com/app/nostr-relay