Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-12-12 🗒️ Summary of this message: FirstBits may ...
📅 Original date posted:2011-12-12
🗒️ Summary of this message: FirstBits may attract a rush to acquire desirable addresses, HTTPS is not foolproof, and addresses are likely unavoidable.
📝 Original message:FirstBits looks nice at glance, but is bound to create a gold-rush to grab
every nice-looking FirstBits address.
HTTPS is only as secure as the (centralized) CAs, thus not really any better
than TXT records.
I don't think an address of some form is avoidable.
🗒️ Summary of this message: FirstBits may attract a rush to acquire desirable addresses, HTTPS is not foolproof, and addresses are likely unavoidable.
📝 Original message:FirstBits looks nice at glance, but is bound to create a gold-rush to grab
every nice-looking FirstBits address.
HTTPS is only as secure as the (centralized) CAs, thus not really any better
than TXT records.
I don't think an address of some form is avoidable.