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2026-04-19 · opinion — Ofcom quietly issued its first Section 121 notice this spring, the enforcement mechanism buried in the Online Safety Act that requires messaging platforms to scan content for specified material. There is no technical way to do that on an end-to-end encrypted channel without breaking the encryption. The law did not ban E2E directly. It banned the only way it can legally exist.
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2026-04-12 · opinion — AI-powered surveillance went from science fiction to city infrastructure in under three years. Your face unlocks your phone, and now it unlocks your file in a police database. This is not a drill.
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2026-04-10 · opinion — The EU's Chat Control law is pushing Signal to exit Europe. But Signal is a company with servers, employees, and a jurisdiction. Nostr is a protocol with none of those things. You can't regulate what you can't find.
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2026-04-08 · bitcoin — Nostr Wallet Connect quietly turned Bitcoin's Lightning Network into a permissionless payment layer that works across any app, any country, no KYC, no intermediary, no platform risk. The financial system just got an upgrade it can't undo.
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2026-03-26 · opinion — Controlling just 2% of Lightning nodes is enough to deanonymize payments. As adoption accelerates, Lightning's privacy model deserves honest scrutiny.