Seems a rather poor cultural fit, to say the least.
Zoom Acquires Keybase
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Re: Zoom Acquires Keybase
#32Looks like it wasn't a good idea to leave your private keys in Keybase's servers was it? Perhaps the moment that Keybase took VC funding a while back, it was over to begin with and the principles of being a "Slack competitor" and respecting their users privacy went straight out of the window and into the bin. I really had high hopes for Keybase as a Slack competitor, the cryptocurrency stuff I actively ignored, but t…
Wait, what? People gave Keybase their private keys?? Isn't keybase just some glorified modernized web of trust infrastructure?
Re: Zoom Acquires Keybase
#33First, a huge congratulations to the founders of Keybase! Running a self-founded messaging company can't be an easy feat.
For me personally, this is of course worrying news. I'll suspect that Keybase will die a rather quick death, as most of it's users are security minded that wouldn't ever trust Zoom.
Re: Zoom Acquires Keybase
#34Keybase' post about the acquisition: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom
> What the Keybase team will be doing
> Initially, our single top priority is helping to make Zoom even more secure. There are no specific plans for the Keybase app yet. Ultimately Keybase's future is in Zoom's hands, and we'll see where that takes us. Of course, if anything changes about Keybase’s availability, our users will get plenty of notice.
> So, our shortest-term directive is to significantly improve our security effectiveness, by working on a product that's that much bigger than Keybase. We can't be more specific than that, because we're just diving in.
So, yup, keybase is dead.
Re: Zoom Acquires Keybase
#35Re: Zoom Acquires Keybase
#36This is horrible news.
Re: Zoom Acquires Keybase
#37Looks like it wasn't a good idea to leave your private keys in Keybase's servers was it? Perhaps the moment that Keybase took VC funding a while back, it was over to begin with and the principles of being a "Slack competitor" and respecting their users privacy went straight out of the window and into the bin. I really had high hopes for Keybase as a Slack competitor, the cryptocurrency stuff I actively ignored, but t…
Or, maybe Keybase needs video, and Zoom needs chat and security, in order to compete with the new wave of “productivity” suites. Why would Keybase suddenly be a failure or get worse in the security department because they are owned by a successful video conferencing company?
Re: Zoom Acquires Keybase
#38Zoom trading at ~1,700 P/E which to me seems absurd. Wonder if the acquisition involved much stock! Seems like a good time for Zoom to make transactions like this.
Re: Zoom Acquires Keybase
#39Cue the anti-China conspiracy theories. It's incredible how effective the anti-China propaganda has been.
My conspiracy is that people who have my private keys can read my encrypted communication. No need to drag China into this.
Re: Zoom Acquires Keybase
#40Given the security concerns around Zoom, and the apparent lack of QC that might have prevented those concerns, this news is appalling. I love Keybase, it's used by many people, but I suspect it will now die a quick death. More accurately I suspect it will slide into a coma - not quite dead, but not in wide use anymore either.
why not look at the problem the other way around?
I don't have much respect for zoom's security practices, while I do have much respect for the keybase team.
Perhaps this is Zoom's way of admitting that there is no way they can just solve the problem internally by keeping doing what they're doing and they need to get some fresh blood and build upon good practices designed outside their current culture.