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Max max@towardsliberty.com 1 week ago
In December 2023, a U.S. Senate investigation revealed that governments worldwide have been demanding push notification records from Apple and Google to surveil smartphone users, including tying anonymous messaging accounts to real identities. For years, privacy engineers dismissed this attack vector as unsolvable, since mobile operating systems require routing through platform servers. MIP-05, a new specification for the Marmot Protocol, proves them wrong: by encrypting device tokens with probabilistic encryption and delivering notifications through gift-wrapped Nostr events, it makes push notifications functionally anonymous. If you care about private communication, this is the specification you need to understand. The specification is currently in draft and open for review:
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MIP-05 Notifications by erskingardner · Pull Request #18 · marmot-protocol/marmot
Summary by CodeRabbit Documentation Added privacy-preserving push notification specification with architecture details, token generation mechanis...
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The Bitcoin Peasant bitcoinpeasant@zaps.lol 1 week ago
Interesting info. It is wild how all this companies are obsessed with information. Also, I have always been curious on how they store the information. If your mobile phone is always listening you, the accumulated information over time must be insane. How do they store it? Do they burn some information? Do they just keep a piece of it? #asknostr
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npub1wuhe...h6ym 6 days ago
Where is the link to the U.S. Senate investigation? Oh, https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/ and
Wyden letter to Department of Justice regarding smartphone push notification surveillance
This is a Dec. 6, 2023 letter from Oregon Senator Ron Wyden asking the Department of Justice to lift any existing restrictions around discussions o...
 I have often wondered about those calls from unknown numbers where even if I say "hello" it's a non-response. A call answered like that can give a lot more information than cell tower ping records, I guess.
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