Free software lets rival manufacturers test and ship improvements to the same security-critical foundations, turning competition into an additional review system. Coldcard benefited from that freedom, restricted it when a competitor did the same, then introduced a catastrophic seed-generation defect while replacing the shared GPL code it wanted gone, years before anyone noticed. View article →

Recording the @Nostr Compass podcast, if you want to join and talk about any of the mentioned project, here's the link, we go in an hour at 16 UTC.

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The next @White Noise release will be substantial. Sorry that it's taking so long, but we're making some radical changes to get everything 10x better. Stay tuned.

The Hanseatic merchants, Thurn und Taxis, Lysander Spooner, and the WWII escape lines all built private postal and shipping networks that outran the official mails of their day, and the techniques they perfected are sitting in the record waiting for the next generation of builders. Nostr marketplaces are ready to inherit them, and this post is the field guide for the translation work ahead. View article →

Every Bitcoin private key generated this decade can be written down on a steel plate that survives fire and flood, but Nostr keys still live mostly in password managers and iCloud screenshots. The math to bring the same physical-backup workflow to Nostr has been sitting in every Bitcoin library since 2013, hiding inside a step of BIP39 that the NIP-06 flow happens to skip past. Below is the case for a backwards-compatible 24-word encoding of any existing nsec, the cryptographic reason it cannot collide with a Bitcoin seed, and the NIP that needs writing. View quoted note →

You see gems like this, the first digital ID app on zapstore:

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AusweisApp — Zapstore

The Identity Card App is software that you install on your smartphone/computer/tablet to identify yourself online with your ID card, your electroni...

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My favorite Nostr feed algorithm is @Zapstore latest releases.

Just found @npub10000...asew and I'm sad I didnt know of them before, awesome Nostr pod!

The Praxeology of Privacy: Freedom Tech vs Mass Surveillance | Max Hillebrand

The Praxeology of Privacy: Freedom Tech vs Mass Surveillance | Max Hillebrand

Every Google Maps route reveals where you are and where you are going to a company that sells behavioral inferences. The road network is a finite dataset and route calculation is graph search, so the computation belongs on your device. OpenStreetMap supplies the data, freely and at community-built quality. Organic Maps does the routing offline on your phone, with zero account, zero tracker, and zero query leaving the device. View quoted note →