Oddbean new post about login | logout Biden announced he is not running for president on Twitter, a centralized company, via an account for which it is understood he doesn’t control directly. When thinking about the future, this feels like such archaic technology in the present. This is a world where the SEC account was compromised not that long ago and posted market-moving false information. If a president has nuclear codes, he arguably should also have a signing key for any important communications.
Except this one. No responsibility for this one please.
Noch wach?
Nee, muss doch morgen abend fit sein
I completely agree with you Lyn but it might be a couple more Presidential election cycles before that's in place. Great note you posted yesterday on Nostr! #BTC #Zap⚡ #Nostr #JulianAssangeIsFree 🔥 #God #Trump #Prayer #USA 🇺🇲
Look who understands the initial function of the SHA-2 algorithm!
Apt comparison, but most officials need training in this tech before touching it (which of course, they won’t do). A good chunk of my below 35 y/o peers don’t even know what a “signing key” is
A president holds the nuclear codes, which surely takes a bit of training. Gotta add a Nostr key to that training…
Believe it or not he first broke the news on Pinterest, but nobody picked it up.
💯 I'm pretty sure the Nuclear Football has more user verification than Twitter, but I wouldn't be surprised if there have been many lapses in security after what we saw w/ Trump's assassination attempt.
The 2fa is on phone and his battery dies..
In a similar vein, the idea that people are pasting nsec’s, unfettered access to their digital identity, into multiple clients is going to look archaic. If it’s not-your-keys not-your-coins, the same holds true for your identity. Everyone needs FROSTR
I agree that this needs to get better over time. But it's a stepping stone.
Lol, you were supposed to respond to the main account 😅 (the other one is just a proxy to post w/o giving up my nsec) nostr:nevent1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejuamfdchsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qy2hwumn8ghj7umhd9ehxtnwdaehgu3wd33j7qfywaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmmkv4ex26t8dejkuemfdejk2unfdenju6t09uqzqrulk8qvu5jf7n2ddae04hg38aegva6952j2adkcee4vwnhfujfehuvaqh
That's how powerful the network effect is.
In a similar vein, the idea that people are pasting nsec’s, unfettered access to their digital identity, into multiple clients is going to look archaic. If it’s not-your-keys not-your-coins, the same holds true for your identity. Everyone needs FROSTR
Wen Frostr? 🥹
Not looking forward to rotating into a new npub that hasn’t been compromised when there are real solutions for putting keys into mobile wallets
You wouldn't need to rotate into a new wallet, just generate Frost shares for your existing npub
More a personal decision than anything. My current npub went all kinds of sketchy places early on and once there is a more universal, generic way to avoid using the need directly I will probably rotate
What is FROSTR?
Agreed - it seems like “forcing blockchain into everything” at first, but you quickly realize the very real use case with how many impersonators there are on social media now adays. With how often official updates are announced on social media in today, it’s not hard to see how it could be a national security concern.
Yeah, but what if his NSEC got compromised?
You treat the President’s nsec like you treat the nuclear codes. And in the future I think there will be more sophisticated tech for that.
Well, think about it: most senators, congress men, and politicians are well into their sixties at minimum, many at seventies and eighties. I think there has not been such a generational difference between general population and politicians ever. A sign of decrepitude and dementia, which is very appropriate to describe the state of the entire nation.
ideally nuclear codes become just as obsolete as centralized media
Imaging a future where world leaders have private keys for Nostr communication is wild. We'll see it. We just need to be patient.
Imagining a future where you use the same private key for both nostr and atproto decentralized ecosystems (I already do!)
I see a future where the atprotocol doesn't exist.
But it already does! No take backs now
What year are you from?
wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t even tweet himself. Too risky for his team in his condition.
It is still NOT on https://www.whitehouse.gov/ :-) .. at least I couldn't find at a glance ! It should be front and center !
Well said!!
Ten hours later ... GM from Europe. The Whitehouse has a website! Which they still haven't updated. https://image.nostr.build/18bb7de60f0acd6d6dd920c8c99fdf0ae5201bdadf58eb816b6e22bbbabb97a1.jpg
🎯🤙
I have better and more secure coms than potus?
If he doesn't control the account what makes you think he'd control a signing key?
and yet you can't leave your engagement bait habits back on twitter
I agree with this take but... just as a password could be compromised a nsec can as well. Don't get me wrong, Nostr is much better but it doesn't fix this fully. nostr:note10ff5kurf3a2h5d8umneuq5dcgznlhcfreyvk34c946z25mlzk38qxccydr
😂 nostr:nevent1qqsrkxw5xwfnn8xyf736ehuhvqqasg3vdgrwpr7dwzr02ckcx2mmk9gpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctczyp4m38rdvdsfe8d569dha00f546uyyqgscm87hrnl8ecj99khhmzgqcyqqqqqqg8ffvyc
