They forward your encrypted VPN traffic over their servers onto Mullvad servers. They themselves can't decrypt the traffic, because it is encrypted using the wireguard to the public key of the mullvad exit node (verifiably). They also handle the mullvad subscription for you so you don't leave any data with mullvad. Basically mullvad sees your traffic, but not your originating IP address or PII and Obscura sees your originating IP, PII but never what traffic you send through the wireguard tunnel (except total bandwidth and rough shape).
Niederlande und Tschechien als Nachbarländer.
That's another issue altogether, I feel that. Luckily through my local bitcoin meetups I know some nostriches IRL that I want to DM sometimes. Feels wrong to use Telegram.
nostr:nprofile1qqs9ajjs5p904ml92evlkayppdpx2n3zdrq6ejnw2wqphxrzmd62swspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuvrcvd5xzapwvdhk6qgdwaehxw309aukzcn49ekk2qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8x6tpd4ehgu3wvdhk6ynf30t is great. I don't use it as a daily driver for all messaging but highly recommend.
I have that installed but am not sure how good interoperability is with other nostr messaging apps such as nostr:nprofile1qqsth7fr42fyvpjl3rzqclvm7cwves8l8l8lqedgevhlfnamvgyg78spzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqqdtrej. Would love for one standard (ideally MLS) to be used everywhere. Always a bit worried that some client does not allow secure DMs and falls back to NIP4
Anyone using nostr DMs for everday messaging? I really like nostr:nprofile1qqsvnx99ww0sfall7gpv2jtz4ftc9v6wevgdd7g4hh7awkpfvwlezugpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsx06t26 but wouldn't mind having my nostr contact list already in my messenger and only have to verify pubkeys once with a pleb and enjoy the web of trust for message confidentiality, payments and app installs.
#asknostr
Slowly realizing the killer use case for #nostr #safebox is storing personal funds AND personal prescriptions.
Peer-to-Peer Healthcare.
After playing with lazereyes built by nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug I realized it will be straightforward to provision a prescription directly into a #safebox from which it can be presented.
It will take me a few days to sort out the details, but the mechanisms are sound.
The implications for this are HUGE! It's all an open infrastructure. The optician need only to trust the npub of the optometrist, the infrastructure takes care of the rest.
The prescription event does not take up much storage and could probably be compressed and printed out as a QR and handed to the patient.
Or saved as a file on his phone/health insurance smart card.
To avoid double spends of the prescription, the optician or pharmacist could comment "dispensed" under the prescription event and publish to as many relays as he likes. Or better yet: publish an event of a new kind with the "dispensed" or "partially dispensed" tag and the prescription's event ID. That way the original prescription event never has to be published and patient data remains private.
But before dispensing the optician/pharmacist could look up the prescription's note ID for any dispensed events on any relay.
Double spends of drug prescription would be fixed, patient data never leaves the patients phone/health insurance card and could even work offline (except for the double spend protection if the pharmacist is offline too).
Like I said you don't need a blockchain for that. Just a folder full of those certificate files that is backed up well.
Blockchain solved the problem of establishing the chronological order of events in a adversarial environment without a central time keeping server.
In the example of a government the same entity that writes and signs the ownership certificate can also write in the current date and time. You need to trust them as an oracle anyway.
You are correct, I don't own any real estate and don't live in the same jurisdiction as you do.
I am not against using cryptography to make documents such as the deed to a house forgery proof. But there is no need to store that record in a globally decentralized public blockchain. You can have a cryptographically signed certificate stating ownership and have that as a small text file on government servers, S3, your drivers license's chip or encoded into a QR Code and framed in your bathroom.
As a raging #bitcoin maximalist, I’m fine with ‘#crypto’ existing… but we need to very clearly define the difference.
nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m's framework is pretty reasonable when you consider that #btc is the only money, everything else is some level of utility.
Real world comparisons:
It is like saying we have gold, so you didn’t need to invent Facebook.
Or you have gold, so you don’t need the deed (soon to be NFT) to your house to prove you own it.
Grow up and recognize that blockchain as the underlying technology has use, but only Bitcoin is money.
I respectfully disagree. Personally I haven't found any use of Blockchain technology, that Bitcoin does not do.
Deeds to houses don't need to become an NFT and shouldn't. What if I lose the private key to my "house ownership NFT"? Whose house is it now? Do I have to move out? For real estate the ledger tracking ownership can be centrally in the hands of the entity that provides you with property rights to that house. So basically the state. If the state does not approve of you selling the house, the sole transfer of that NFT will not be enough.
Putting real-world assets on the blockchain does not work, as there is no trustless link between real world asset and the blockchain. If the house burns down, who writes that to the blockchain?
Only real world asset that can provably be put on the blockchain is computing power through PoW.
In my opinion blockchain is good for digital money and timestamping of files/information.
And even if you want to mint an NFT for your house, you can do that on the Bitcoin blockchain and don't need "crypto".
Says they ship to the US, though postage might cost a bit from Europe.
Can pay with ⚡though 😃
I think this represents the stereotypical American in the eyes of an European better
"Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform"
worth the read
https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117
Impressive writeup! A bit shocking that Signal does not take this more seriously. Basically it allows a whistleblower to be pinpointed to city-level in many places.
And to say they never intended to hide this kind of data between two parties is contrary to their "relay call" feature that has been there for years to not leak your IP address to your call partner in p2p calls.
I also don't get why Signal attachments in private chats need to be hosted on a CDN with caching: they are basically only downloaded once by one person and deleted after that. So why not simply run one or two servers for attachments per continent. Is so much bandwidth saving achieved through local caching?
Are all included TXs created by MARA or did they pick mostly normal TXs from the mempool but arranged them differently in this block maybe not maximising for most fees collected?
I mean they wouldn't have to forgo 100% of fees that way.
Solokey and NitroKey are two more options. No personal experience with any of them though, so just throwing out names.
Sadly #GrapheneOS still does not support FIDO without Google Play Services. Eagerly waiting for support there...
Are you at all worried about Yubikeys being closed-source?
Is fluoride in toothpaste fine if I spit it all out afterwards and rinse with water (non-flouridated obviously)?
Fine by me. SimpleX team is well in their rights to not want to host *public* groups with illegal content that goes against their moral values.
If you feel like you need such a group public for anyone to join, it's up to you to run your own simplex server. 5$/mo for that.
They still don't censor any private conversations or stop you from using third party servers.