Nostr Web Client

I don't seek privacy.

I know that some of you do, and I want to support that, but I don't need it. I have a DNS record that ties an IP address to my legal name. Anything done by that IP address is, well, obviously me. If relays on nostr can associate my public key with my IP address, I really don't give a flying fuck. I am not engaging in illegal behavior (at least not knowingly) and I will happily comply with law enforcement should they think that I am. Trying to protect myself from all possible outcomes is I think a sign of paranoia. YES the government is wrong sometimes and oppressive sometimes and who knows what might happen. The general trends are worrying. But I address that by pushing for change, and by producing legal technology that helps push for change.

I understand some of you are fighting against evil top down systems of oppression via fiat currencies, and in doing so you are making yourselves targets, and are being anonymous so you can fight harder. That's fine, and I'll support privacy where I can. But this is not my personal battle. My battle is for free speech, a battlefield on which I don't have to be anonymous to fight with full ferocity.

So please appreciate the work I put into helping you maintain your privacy (gossip security, gossip relay privacy controls, etc) because I didn't need any of that for myself, that was 100% for you guys. And in doing so, don't mock my opsec or belittle my client just because it doesn't do things exactly the way you think it should do things.

ben 1y ago

saying you don’t need privacy is a pretty bad look.

every human needs privacy. I realize you’re talking in the context of nostr, but privacy is a touchy and often misunderstood subject.

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Contra 1y ago

Agree on both sides of this thread. There’s a reason why houses aren’t built with see through glass

Mike Dilger ☑️ 1y ago

I concur that privacy is a misunderstood subject.

I think governments should respect the privacy of their citizens, and government actors should be constrained by laws that enforce this.

I'm 100% on board with Edward Snowden's views on this.

And if you are at odds with current (or expected future) governmental policies, I encourage you to use privacy to your advantage.

If you are using privacy to skirt responsibility for crimes, then I'm not in favor of such a use of privacy. But given the nature of privacy, there is no way to distinguish. We would have to break your privacy to find out that you were being a criminal and using privacy to hide it. I think that law enforcement needs to rise above this and be able to stop crime without violating people's privacy.

YET I don't care if nostr relays know the IP address of my home computer. I am not going to use TOR for everything and bend over backwards to hide. I am not going to remove the wires from the microphone and speaker of my mobile phone. YOU CAN, and I support you if you need it, but I won't be doing it. I'm not making some kind of better-than-thou statement, that you should be like me and not care about privacy. I'm just stating that I don't, not that my position is more moral or any bullshit like that. My point is that I put effort into making gossip private FOR YOU, and it bugs me when people don't appreciate it and make me feel bad.

🦄Onigirl🐹🐉 1y ago

I appreciate your work. I'm grateful it helps w protecting one's privacy. I guess users are worried if you might make a backdoor since you aren't concerned with your privacy.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

It is, and I have worked on better solutions in the recent past:

https://github.com/indra-labs/indranet

I need a lot of time to finish the work still, it needs a new p2p transport layer to scale better than ipfs, and the LN rails have not been built either, just placeholders currently.