No point trying to steal Nostr data, since it's all public or encrypted and the npubs hold their own encryption keys.
At the most, you could shut down a machine, but there are a gazillion other machines, so good luck with that.
His strategic error was in trying to hide data in storage.
Same idea as the people trying to scrape Twitter data. 🤣
On Nostr, you just setup a relay and collect whatever data you can get and read whatever you can read. The idea that you should hide data sources that the public or the operator can see is an antipattern.
It's not about scraping data.. its about actually controlling what people can and cannot say.. right now nostr is niche and doesn't represent a significant threat. Telegram and X are actually messing things up for the thought police
Everyone wants to play God holding the keys themselves.
Give the keys to the people and suddenly that target on your back disappears.
Yes, if you project control, people will expect you to control. I think that they are right to expect this.
It is dangerous, to be king.
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