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Nerd, ruby dev, systems theory adversarial thinker/arm chair general, Bitcoin enthusiast, toki pona 🗣👍 and other language barrier breaking methods advocate relays = [ relayable.org, nostr.wine, nostr.milou.lol, paid.spore.ws, nostr.uselessshit.co, nostr-pub.wellorder.net ]
For everyone who saw this and became concerned about privacy, remember that it's only pulling publically available data. If YOU post a picture of yourself on the internet with your name, where you went to college and all of these things, then YOU are at fault. "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world." If YOU are posting this kind of information on publically facing websites of anykind, it is YOUR fault for not *selectively* revealing yourself to the world. This should be a wake up call to scrub your digital footprint now. View quoted note →
"The wallet pings an onion URL to check for a new version" So let me tell you how this can all go wrong. From clearnet to Tor username resuse, to social engineering attacks (and lastly actual exploits" there are a lot of ways to reveal the identity of the developers and get into the server that hosts the updated program. If a whole userbase that doesn't want their ID tied to their Bitcoin transactions is using this software for that purpose, and among that userbase is a criminal of any sort, then a malicious update to deanonymize the entire userbase is a real and persistent threat. View quoted note →
Malaysians, this is your warning. Learn how to self host your own DNS, write down the IP of your favorite websites (add nostr relays by ip instead of domain name) learn to use tor something anything to insulate yourself from the government imposed internet use limitations you will likely see in the coming years.