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Ron Stoner

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Ron Stoner's personal blog at ron.stoner.com covers security and ai. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters cite this site as a source for a quoted critique that Nostr encrypted DMs still expose metadata through public relays. The comments do not assess the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Personal site of Ron Stoner — Head of Security at Category Labs, CCSSA #1, and architect of the CryptoCurrency Security Standard Auditor exam. Writing on cryptocurrency security, self-custody, AI/LLM security, CTFs, and self-sovereign technology.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm probably mixing up analogies with actual implementations, but I'm basing my question on sentiments like this[1]: > While nostr offers the ability to send encrypted DMs to user pubkeys, the metadata of these messages are broadcast publicly via relays. This is the same as a bitcoin transaction being viewable on the public ledger. The contents of the direct message will be encrypted, but other metadata like the sen…

    Comment linking /nostr_Security_and_Privacy/

    on “Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app”
  2. Submitted I Won a Championship That Doesn't Exist as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. > White Noise stands out by merging Nostr’s decentralized network with advanced encryption. How does White Noise address criticisms surrounding Nostr's implementation[1]: > While nostr offers the ability to send encrypted DMs to user pubkeys, the metadata of these messages are broadcast publicly via relays. This is the same as a bitcoin transaction being viewable on the public ledger. The contents of the direct mess…

    Comment linking /nostr_Security_and_Privacy/

    on “White Noise – secure and private messenger”
  4. Submitted The History of Stoner.com as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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