Thanks for that.
OK, looks like you are the relay guy in residence haha, whats the answer to this question?
A relay is a server, presumably it is not impregnable. So if the relay were compromised, the hacker can censor, edit, generally mess with the content. I assume that because if a relay owner can delete content, they can surely edit too? Can the relay owner switch off and somehow revert back to the original, or are they just toast?
Follow on from that. I understand relays dont "talk" to each other just to the users sending content their way. So presumably there is no concensus mechanism in Nostr whereby the changed content can be rejected by the network.
How do we know if a relay has been compromised and we aren't seeing censored content. Is it the community watching for changes somehow? Or are we reliant on the relay owner knowing, alerting, doing the right thing?
Dont worry, I will go away soon :)
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npub10d…39zws
2024-08-19 16:29:39
in reply to nevent1q…p9xn
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2024-08-19 16:29:39Event JSON
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