pgkyc's comments

If you've not heard about it, check out nostr protocol -- https://krisconstable.com/check-out-the-nostr-protocol/

"nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". "The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all."

Jack stumbled upon it yesterday and created an account, so there have been a flood of new users already in the last 16 hours.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

I recommend https://astral.ninja as a first time user as it's easy to generate a key pair, which you can then use as you try the many other clients.

This is a very new protocol, so the clients are still dev level and not production level, but development has been very rapid on this protocol.

One thing that stands out to me as a privacy advocate, is that unlike Twitter or Mastadon, the admins (relay operators in the case of nostr) can't read your DMs, so nostr is already ahead of both of these technologies in that regard.

My current node is line of sight to the U.S. mountains south of Victoria, so if that's your location and you have line of sight, you can probably connect to me right now!

We have a [#BCMesh started here in British Colombia](https://krisconstable.com/bc-mesh-using-LoRa-devices) if you want to join.

I've spent the last +18 months building a product that does this with even more privacy than Apple. It's called idvpn.ca and we assign a virtual ID (pseudonym) to you for each app/vendor you connect to.

This way if they're breached, you don't care and they don't care, yet we can meet any compliance requirements the app/vendor has such as age checking, sanction list checking, anti-money laundering, counter terrorist financing etc.

We're eagerly looking for vendors interested in beta testing our service, as we have a working product (using OIDC, and/or we easily integrate with Wordpress) and are looking for the MVP/business model now.

A few notes:

* In Canada, we have jurisdictional privacy law. In this case BC FIPPA. This is different than in the US where the few privacy laws that exist are mostly sectoral, such as health (HIPPA). https://www.oipc.bc.ca/guidance-documents/1466

* In Canada, only only one party has to agree to agree to record a telephone conversation.

* In Canada, it is not illegal to have a scanner and listen to phone calls even, hence the need to encrypt them faster up here. POGSAC decoding was done in the middle of the 90s with my local #2600 group. It even easier now with RTL-SDR. https://twitter.com/cqwww/status/1171113297011019781

* I've been in two states of emergency in my life. Cell phone switches go down in minutes. You want to have your amateur radio licence, an amateur radio, and battery, on standby for when this happens. Practice setting up a data connection to is, as the internet goes away quickly as well. Get your ham radio licence, it's free, and you have your call sign for life. It's a nerdy thing to have except in an emergency, where you quickly turn to hero if you're the only person in your area capable of communicating with emergency services.

Here are my thoughts on jurisdictional sovereignty, in terms of your data, and how an American company calling out Australia is the pot calling the kettle black.

https://www.krisconstable.com/its-time-to-think-about-jurisd...