You alone can decide whether to trust an npub. I think there is a great symbiosis between 'trusted domain names' (nip05) that can help bootstrap the trust in an npub.
We already 'trust' domain names and DNSSEC helps to ensure these domain names can't be spoofed
Tim Bouma
npub1q6…nx7d5
2024-09-01 19:46:05
in reply to nevent1q…gxw0
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npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5Published at
2024-09-01 19:46:05Event JSON
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