Alex on Nostr: The crazy part is these relays are being malicious by accident. Relays malicious on ...
The crazy part is these relays are being malicious by accident. Relays malicious on purpose will just pipe /dev/random into the WebSocket as soon as you connect to them. It really shows how fragile this system is that we're not even being attacked, we're attacking ourselves by accident and clients can barely handle it.
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