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Hear me out: A Nostr Service where you can send leaked private keys to:
1. delete everything from those keys everywhere
2. watch for new posts from those keys and delete them as well, forever.

The main idea is to block attackers from using your keys.

The second idea is to let everyone know that their info can indeed be deleted at any time if a person gets your key. If you are using relays that accept deletion events, your Nostr content can be purged from existence.

Have your backups. Don't think relays will be there for you when this happens.
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Richard · 162w
A service to nuke accounts simply gives bad actors an extra incentive to steal keys to totally 'memory hole' dissidents. The protocol should be optimised to allow notes to persist forever IMHO.
Vitor Pamplona · 162w
We should call this Nukstr. Also, the replies here show how far we are from correctly educating users about who actually owns their Nostr data and the role of relays. #[0]
threeseries · 162w
I kind of like this idea. It could also be a way to deliberately burn an account if you want to get rid of it. How about such a service also sending out notices which provably came from that service after it has access to a given key? That is, sign something in a way that requires both the service'...
Alex Gleason · 162w
I’ve already created a small server that does this, although it needs to be self-hosted. Can handle thousands of keys easily: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/plan-b
kennytaylor · 162w
The request would need to be signed by the leaked key, similar to an SSL certificate revocation list. That affrms that either 1) the owner requested the revocation, or 2) the key was leaked and someone else requested the revocation. The same mechanism could be used for de facto account deletion, i...