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A thought that occurs to me - should journalists encourage the use of one-time nsec/npub pairs to be sources through Nostr?
Generally speaking, any way to contact a journalist usually involves email/phone numbers and is an announced channel (meaning intelligence agencies will also be able to find those channels). In China, Signal has had a fake app placed (
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/30/malicious-signal-app-planted-on-google-play-by-china-linked-cyber-spies/) to trick people and in the past, I remember that some sources went dark because they had to download Signal to communicate with journalists, and the Great Firewall does pick up if you're trying to download Signal, which can be a crime in of itself.
I want to hear as many downsides to this as possible, especially on the encryption/privacy front.
Published at
2024-07-19 16:37:09Event JSON
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