Nostr Web Client

This is really big, and really bad news.

The essential point seems to be that there is an argument that they *could* have exerted control. Did they actually have backdoor keys into the smart contract after they wrote and deployed it? I can't remember a clarification on that crucial point.

If they didn't, then this is even worse, because it means US LE are prepared to make *really* tortuous arguments to go after privacy software developers.

monk_cactus 2y ago

I don’t think the essential point has anything to do with backdoors. It’s actually much worse than that.

They’re arguing that since the devs 1) made the software and 2) knew it would be used for “illegal” things, and yet 3) did nothing to stop this, that they are complicit.

What kinds of things could they have done to stop things? Not made the software in the first place. Attempted to take the software down after the fact. Or blocked certain inputs as Wasabi does.

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