Exactly what I said in my post above.
Durov made it HARD to get Telegram user data. It was easier and cheaper to take him hostage than to steal the user data in bulk.
I don't doubt ECHELON can get root access if they want, via hardware trojans. But that's tedious work plus mad skillz.
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Same idea as the people trying to scrape Twitter data. 🤣
On Nostr, you just setup a relay and collect whatever data you can get and read whatever you can read. The idea that you should hide data sources that the public or the operator can see is an antipattern.
Everyone wants to play God holding the keys themselves.
Give the keys to the people and suddenly that target on your back disappears.
It's not hard to get the data. The problem is they have no content moderation control authority. They want control over what you can say. They already have the means to spy on you. With the narrative falling further and further out of their control with apps like X spying isn't enough, they need pre-Elon twitter 1.0 levels of cooperation from these apps to shut down dissenting voices
