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Zbay is a peer-to-peer messaging app & marketplace based on Zcash
We were at war, and someone we couldn't see had us in their sights.
Being the target of a funded attack of unknown scope is fucking stressful.
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Any clarity I provide about the hidden efficacy of these dirty tricks increases their value, and likelihood.
a) urge anyone doing valuable political work to take preemptive steps to limit their exposure to these attacks
and...
b) underline the need for tools that protect *everyone* by default, because not every activist will protect themselves!
Given our attacker's business model, and given the tiny number of opposition stakeholders, we can now be fairly certain that funding for the attack came—in a hard-to-trace trickle, no doubt—from one of a handful of household-name telecom companies.
We need tools that give everyone a tight grip on their security, out of the box, by default.
- Free software apps
- using e2e encryption
- running on updated devices
- with encrypted storage
- connected over p2p networks
- that trust no central servers
...offer the best protection we can give journalists and activists.
Or message me in Zbay (my username is `holmes`)