Tim Bouma on Nostr: Ironically, the best way to solve the problem of massive data breaches is to have the ...

Ironically, the best way to solve the problem of massive data breaches is to have the data out in the open to begin with. Relays can do this job.

How you protect the data is to not view the data as being in a single container protected by a single key, but as millions and millions of little containers (events) signed and encrypted by keys that you don’t actually hold.

If there is a breach, it’s an issue contained to an individual holder, not and issue for the entire dataset, or for the broader society as a whole, who now has to deal with massive breaches on a daily basis.

In keeping with my earlier theme, #nostr turns the whole architecture and approach inside out. It will take some time for this to catch on (too much money to be made fighting the traditional cybersecurity fires), but we’ll get there.

#nostr #cybersecurity