What is your budget?

Many here will recommend a Google pixel in order to run GrapheneOS, which is very likely the most secure and private version of the android operating system. The 9 series is coming out, so the 8 can still be gotten new for a good price.

@gel I would be very sad to see you go 😔. I guess Melvin already mentioned a possible long-term solution.

Let's try to do some process of elimination and some house keeping. If you already know this then ignore me. 🫂

1.) Have you figured out whether your nsec has been stolen? If yes, what made you believe so? Eg, have you seen any post that are not yours perhaps?

2.) a.) If not, perhaps it is impersonation. Therefore, we need to create a web of trust for you. Perhaps a secret word that only you and your connection would know. However, this would require you to have a different method of sharing this secure word or phrase exclusive to your trusted friends here. This maybe a tricky one but it is possible.

b.) Use a keystore like nsec.app or amber for android clients (I forgot the name for iOs) to login to nostr clients. This keeps your key secure. Think of it like a second auth. When you login to nsec.app or any keystore, it will ask you to store your nsec there. You need to have a master key of that keystore so every time you login to any nostr client, you will use a random link to login and you have to approve the connection — which client you want to approve. It is important to renew cachr and avoid re-using permission cache. I'd suggest to refresh it when using the web. To keep it safe from cache session hijacking (have not tested this theory yet). This is to make sure you are only allowing the client you granted permission to access specific client. You can customise what each client can do and cannot do.

3.) Use VPN and Password manager. On top of the keystore, it is best practice to always encrypt your traffic on transit (VPN). Password manager is putting all your keys and passwords, secret phrase encrypted online and offline. There are so many trusted vendor out there. I used Nordvpn for 7 years now.

4.) Encrypt your mobile phone and laptop.

If you need to jump on hivetalk to help you with this, let me know! 👌

Keep us posted! ☺️

Top o the morning nostrovians 🥳⛅️

This will be my last post from this specific npub

At this point, I am sure that a Minimum of 3 different actors have access to my nsec through exploits of my systems. So you’ll just have to trust my voice/pen right now.

A bit of a wild ride but I’ll try to explain…

The day Brazil banned X, I came to nostr. My favorite AI engineer content builds from Brazil.

My legacy socials have been shadow banned for years (roughly 2021). I’ve largely stepped away from the online world… but recently revived some socials to help friends out with their content. They are athletes, not computer whizzes. We mostly live in the dirt. Off grid as possible.

Motorcycle racing is a difficult industry and it’s costly… so when I arrived at nostr I immediately fell back in love with IoV. I used to contribute daily to projects like nostr. In fact, we used to have something like zaps on another platform but it got banned due to the regulatory crackdown of us in 2020. We were suddenly a “bank” and that was confusing when it came to KYC on centralized platforms. Weitse Wind is an incredible mouthpiece for kindness in this space and he waded us through an absolute mess. I’ve had great mentors. I owe them a lot.

Whenever I build a platform, I imagine it as a service to others bc I genuinely try to live by a service to others mindset. Hence open source projects

So, I follow a prototype to scale model… this npub is an outlier.

I started nostr from a computer but as I looked at the source I got scared for onboarding my friends and family. We’re still trying to digest 2FA in that world.

So I created a proof-of-concept… I didn’t realize it would scale this quickly.

I onboarded as though I know nothing about encryption. so I used my real face and a lot of other really real details. Also, some not real because I knew I was in a pit of vipers. We all are, on the internet, always.

I literally pasted my keys to a word doc… I built this as sloppy as I know my loved ones would. And then I downloaded the apps to my phone. And along the way tried to explain what was happening… I didn’t touch any code and I only changed a relay once, but I’m pretty sure at one point my real human IP was banned.

And here we are… multiple people have control of my account. You all have no way of knowing which signed events are actually a match to my face. You’ve witnessed both the burning of my books and a witch hunt in real time. And all of this data is stamped in history as though it is me. At the “block” level.

Proof-of-concepts are helpful because they give us visuals and immersive experience. Measure twice, cut once.

My next profile will be me in full authenticity, but those keys will be secured with biometrics.

Thank you for coming my extremely confused TedxTalk and namaste. 🙏🏼

Solo Old Rag Trip | 9.23.24 ⛰️

This trip will go in the books for sure, the conditions made for some of my favorite images

All photos were shot straight out of camera with my Fuji X100VI

#fujifilm #photo #travel #photography #art

When you can no longer trust what you see or hear, go within. This is the way.

#ikitao

GM ครับ #siamstr ☕

So true.

I don’t see how the decision to show closed stores when you select open now could possibly be a mistake. They’re too methodical and competent to brake a simple “open now” filter. The question is what drove google to decide to so blatantly disregard user requests.

i've had someone somewhat close to me get scammed before. it was a wild experience because they refused to listen to their closest friends and family in favor of the scammer for awhile.

took them almost two months to finally wake up.

scary stuff, really.

He will find me in every timeline in every lifetime…. I’ll make sure we find you in the next one ♥️

❤️❤️ you would have loved him Lady Mae… he stood for everything you seem to value

Let's say I listened to an insane person for 20 hours and now I want to replace all my light bulps with red ones that are super dim. Which ones should I get? #asknostr

Today is just grief… and pouring rain

Sadness over how far we got from the original concepts of Bitcoin- which is, and always will be, a fundamentally anarchist set of parameters.

When I was introduced to the theory behind bitcoin it was 2 digits. I thought it was most radical concept I’d ever heard.

At that time, I never imagined it would turn into a stock market.

A true story:

The love of my life was a coding savant. The last fight we had was about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency protocols in general. It seems strange to me now that I wouldn’t listen to what he was explaining. He’s dead now. But, sometimes I give myself comfort by knowing when I ask source for protection… my destroyer of worlds protects me from that realm.

Sometimes they have to see a lamb get slaughtered to understand why there is war