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Re:White Noise – secure and private messenger by bravesoul2 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:31AM (#44518685)
That sounds easy to DoS.
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Re:White Noise – secure and private messenger by SchemaLoad on Thursday July 10, 2025 @08:13PM (#44527124)
You're right, which is why they used Proof of Work as a requirement of sending a message. Problem is it made sending messages on mobile kind of bad since any PoW which would stop a desktop GPU from spamming is too much for a phone SoC.
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