diff --git a/damus/Components/TranslateView.swift b/damus/Components/TranslateView.swift
index 4465f97c..104ba560 100644
--- a/damus/Components/TranslateView.swift
+++ b/damus/Components/TranslateView.swift
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct TranslateView: View {
                 if #available(iOS 16, *) {
                     noteLanguage = Locale.LanguageCode(stringLiteral: lang).identifier(.alpha2)
                 } else {
-                    noteLanguage = Locale.canonicalLanguageIdentifier(from: lang)
+                    noteLanguage = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: lang).languageCode
                 }
             }
             
diff --git a/damus/Views/DMChatView.swift b/damus/Views/DMChatView.swift
index 8a1f1ce1..5e2c8dc0 100644
--- a/damus/Views/DMChatView.swift
+++ b/damus/Views/DMChatView.swift
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ struct DMChatView: View {
     let pubkey: String
     @EnvironmentObject var dms: DirectMessageModel
     @State var message: String = ""
+    @State var showPrivateKeyWarning: Bool = false
 
     var Messages: some View {
         ScrollViewReader { scroller in
@@ -93,7 +94,21 @@ struct DMChatView: View {
                 InputField
 
                 if !message.isEmpty {
-                    Button(role: .none, action: send_message) {
+                    Button(
+                        role: .none,
+                        action: {
+                            if #available(iOS 16.0, *) {
+                                showPrivateKeyWarning = message.contains(/nsec1[02-9ac-z]+/)
+                            } else {
+                                let regex = try! NSRegularExpression(pattern: "nsec1[02-9ac-z]+")
+                                showPrivateKeyWarning = (regex.firstMatch(in: message, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: message.count)) != nil)
+                            }
+
+                            if !showPrivateKeyWarning {
+                                send_message()
+                            }
+                        }
+                    ) {
                         Label("", systemImage: "arrow.right.circle")
                             .font(.title)
                     }
@@ -147,6 +162,14 @@ struct DMChatView: View {
         }
         .navigationTitle(NSLocalizedString("DMs", comment: "Navigation title for DMs view, where DM is the English abbreviation for Direct Message."))
         .toolbar { Header }
+        .alert(NSLocalizedString("Note contains \"nsec1\" private key. Are you sure?", comment: "Alert user that they might be attempting to paste a private key and ask them to confirm."), isPresented: $showPrivateKeyWarning, actions: {
+            Button(NSLocalizedString("No", comment: "Button to cancel out of posting a note after being alerted that it looks like they might be posting a private key."), role: .cancel) {
+                showPrivateKeyWarning = false
+            }
+            Button(NSLocalizedString("Yes, Post with Private Key", comment: "Button to proceed with posting a note even though it looks like they might be posting a private key."), role: .destructive) {
+                send_message()
+            }
+        })
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/damus/Views/PostView.swift b/damus/Views/PostView.swift
index 3e6d587b..dd1c01cd 100644
--- a/damus/Views/PostView.swift
+++ b/damus/Views/PostView.swift
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ let POST_PLACEHOLDER = NSLocalizedString("Type your post here...", comment: "Tex
 struct PostView: View {
     @State var post: String = ""
     @FocusState var focus: Bool
+    @State var showPrivateKeyWarning: Bool = false
     
     let replying_to: NostrEvent?
     let references: [ReferencedId]
@@ -65,7 +66,16 @@ struct PostView: View {
 
                 if !is_post_empty {
                     Button(NSLocalizedString("Post", comment: "Button to post a note.")) {
-                        self.send_post()
+                        if #available(iOS 16.0, *) {
+                            showPrivateKeyWarning = self.post.contains(/nsec1[02-9ac-z]+/)
+                        } else {
+                            let regex = try! NSRegularExpression(pattern: "nsec1[02-9ac-z]+")
+                            showPrivateKeyWarning = (regex.firstMatch(in: self.post, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: self.post.count)) != nil)
+                        }
+
+                        if !showPrivateKeyWarning {
+                            self.send_post()
+                        }
                     }
                 }
             }
@@ -99,6 +109,14 @@ struct PostView: View {
             }
         }
         .padding()
+        .alert(NSLocalizedString("Note contains \"nsec1\" private key. Are you sure?", comment: "Alert user that they might be attempting to paste a private key and ask them to confirm."), isPresented: $showPrivateKeyWarning, actions: {
+            Button(NSLocalizedString("No", comment: "Button to cancel out of posting a note after being alerted that it looks like they might be posting a private key."), role: .cancel) {
+                showPrivateKeyWarning = false
+            }
+            Button(NSLocalizedString("Yes, Post with Private Key", comment: "Button to proceed with posting a note even though it looks like they might be posting a private key."), role: .destructive) {
+                self.send_post()
+            }
+        })
     }
 }