So apparently they can give a search warrant to a social media company to access your account without you knowing about it.
Nostr fixes this
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yep the feds just collect all the data without the warrant
Lolz ideally they can’t get to it unless they get into your physical phone with a warrant otherwise they’ll never know how to connect you
all the data goes via relays that anyone can request via the same relays
Only true for dms. And they only need your nsec key. But they can still pinpoint you easily.
it really depends on where their access point is.
in the past, a fed could find me on instagram, think i'm hot, go to meta, and have all my accounts hacked.
is this still possible here? if that's the case, i need to know.
hopefully i wont run into this issue here, because i'm not posting hot pics. 🙏
it would be really helpful to have a guide of all the security issues of nostr in one consolidated place, which is the reason the fediverse was born in the first place, but i rly dunno
nsec key is imp, if someone gets to it your acc is gone forever, no recovery after that. People are working on truly private dms, as currently anyone can know who you are talking with.
If feds are a true concern then they will sure find a way to get access to your keys in the current clients world
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m was right … these kind of services can’t be in the hands of individuals, govs, businesses, centralizing agencies etc …
Protocols are the way to go if we don’t want this kind of overreach … which most likely, will only get worse
Not really.
Millions of decentralized servers means millions of weak points
Has nothing to do with decentralization. All the Feds need is a backup/scraper for nostr. The relays need warrants to help then track by IP if manhunt. But easily use Tor to skirt that.
The other big difference is social media like Facebook track everywhere you go via mobile app, cookies, browser fingerprinting, 3rd party data sharing, and so on. So when asked for data kn you there is more there. So they get data of GPS and where you have been as example. Comparing that to nostr is like a .22 to a Howitzer.
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Literally how? If you host the data, they can seize it
they dont even need to do that as they can just download it from the relays
“Platforms” are slaves to the government.
Nostr changes this. DMs are safer. Less data for cross-referencing. IP and public activity still vulnerable.
What if you don't have an account with a social media company. All historical data should be purged out of them all. So they only have the illegally retained stuff now.
Instead of nostr fixing this we should fix the overreaching governments, playing a cat and mouse game with tyranical governments (i guess tyranical is redundant here) is not the optimal solution.
While technical solution preventing that are nice we should denormalize stripping people of their basic human rights and normalize total privacy