What can we do to protect ourselves from this?
#Nostr #nip04
#ProtectMetadata
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To defeat the NIP-04 metadata leakage, just have everyone DM everyone constantly with throw-away messages. That is, content that undecrypts to identifiable garbage.
Saturate the graph with noise.
Spammy solution. I think there were better solutions suggested as NIPs in nostr NIP repo.
Yes, this is spam by design. 😂
And yes, there are better solutions already proposed. Onion routing was one. Chain-of-ephemeral-pubkeys was another. I could imagine something based on NIP-26 delegation, etc.
just use a pseudonym dawg
Some people will use this to dunk on Nostr.
Nostr is a great idea. But we need to enhance privacy on DM.
I would love to see an implementation for a better DM specification.
I agree, we need better solutions. I tend to think we should look beyond Nostr for private DMs. For example, there are other privacy preserving protocols. Just for example, take something like Signal. Couldn't a Nostr DM be used to perform a handshake between two clients so they can then switch over to Signal? Perhaps a client could use Nostr for public-facing messaging, then switch to another protocol for private comms.