Big Barry Bitcoin on Nostr: We should have resisted the urge to make nsec and npub both short... Should have been ...

We should have resisted the urge to make nsec and npub both short...

Should have been npub and nsecret-likeseriouslysecretdontsharewithanyonethisisntyournpub

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We analyzed 40M events archived by BigBrotr and found 16,000+ valid nsec keys published in plaintext.
90% republished by a single bot. The rest: users confusing nsec with npub, AI agents leaking credentials in logs.
https://bigbrotr.com/blog/exposed-nsec-analysis/

#nostr #security #bigbrotr