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 I'd like it if they fixed the privacy of DMs first.. it's also strange that there's no way to turn them off 
 Privacy is fixed with nip 17. Many clients and libraries have already switched and deprecated nip 4. I wish Damus would hurry up and implement it. 
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 Nip17 is a combination of nip 44 and nip 59 gift wraps, which takes care of the concerns in that message. 
 NIP-59 seems to do a good job at hiding metadata from public view but it doesn't provide

- break-in recovery.
- repudiation (deniability).
- (lack of) visibility of connection graph to observers.
- fixed message sizes (although it can be provided by the specific app)
- resistance to Shore algorithm (PQ encryption).

I can add that it definitely doesn't provide forward secrecy.

It's concerning that these developers simply don't seem qualified to properly implement secure messaging, and I believe users are being put at risk, although I do see a lot of people just putting nostr:nprofile1qqsvnx99ww0sfall7gpv2jtz4ftc9v6wevgdd7g4hh7awkpfvwlezugpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsg5cway addresses in their profile anyway. 
 You are wrong on several of these if not all. I will pull it up in a bit. 
 By 'it' I mean mean NIP-44 encryption.