You don't need to trust the security of pubs. Validation of messages happens thr...

rattray · on April 6, 2017

> public messages are public anyways

Right, but someone I trust could have their message corrupted, no?

eg; some political leader intends to write "everybody vote for Alice" and it is modified to read "everybody vote for Carol". Is this possible?

(I generally trust FB not to do this because their business would suffer if they were caught, for example – not so with ephemeral pubs)

cel · on April 6, 2017

Each message includes a signature by its author of its content, so it can't be falsified (unless the author's key is compromised)

yoshuaw · on April 7, 2017

Nope, there's proper crypto in place to prevent this (each user has their messages signed with a keypair)

mundo · on April 6, 2017

So, if I post a GB worth of diary entries, who ends up caching it by default? Just my followers? People I follow? Pubs I connect to?

cel · on April 6, 2017

> So, if I post a GB worth of diary entries, who ends up caching it by default? Just my followers? People I follow? Pubs I connect to?

your followers, their followers, and their followers (assuming everyone is using the default replication settings). These may include pubs or people you follow. If you are able to connect to a pub then most likely it is willing to replicate your feed.