Oddbean new post about login | logout I’ve always found it interesting that Session is an Australian phenomenon, a country and empire that has no love for freedom of any kind that doesn’t benefit the imperialist agenda. Either it’s amazingly resilient, or state sponsored spyware?
It’s true that Australia is tyranny. It’s false that Session is Australian. Some developers such as the CTO may physically stand on Australian soil, but the private keys to sign new software and those with authority to use them are not. Many countries are tyranny including the US, UK, all of EU. To say that all software devs must be anonymous is an unfair restriction on fund raising. We are not defined by where we stand. This is the purpose of Session and Nostr, to use encryption by identity to separate our actions from physical locations.
I’m glad to learn of this, and I agree. Tyranny tends to react to technology that undermines control of peer communication and effective surveillance. While Kim Dotcom was certainly supporting copyright infringement, it is telling that the US was able to conduct an incursion on a citizen of NZ, in NZ, seizing the property of and arresting a person who had never stepped foot on US soil. Tyranny is as tyranny does I suppose. I’m just surprised that the AUS government hasn’t at least rattled a saber at Session. I fully support the aims of protocols like Nostr and Session, success is imperative. I think distribution of development and nodes is key.