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If the original claim was "100% of the dev team is in China", and the reality is "only 80% of the dev team is in China", then that'd be a 20% factual error, mathematically speaking.
Or would it be a 25% error, i think it would make most sense to calculate the error-difference in relation to the actual value instead of in relation to the erroneous value.
Keybase's side of the announcement: 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 o…
(We've since changed the URL from https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keyb... to that one)
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Pre-1970 or so. Before Milton Friedman, there was a general sense that companies existed to fulfill some mission, with profit as a means. The CEO of Kellogg commented on this in an interview ca. 1980, that money for a business is like a gasoline for a road trip. You need it to get where you're going, but the point of a road trip is not to accumulate as much gasoline as possible.
Is this a joke? The bulk of the labor movement happened before 1970, and it was not because workers were so well-treated and well-compensated that they had a lot of free time on their hands. I'm a big fan of business and entrepreneurship, but let's be clear here: there is a reason we invented government. There was never a time when we could 100% count on the beneficence of business leaders to advance social goals. Ed…
So really, it's not that "there are some bad actors", but that "the system strongly encourages businesses to install these so-called bad actors as their leaders". I agree with you, that we need strong government labor regulations to counter this mentality, but this mentality is why these regulations have deteriorated over the past 50 years.
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It seems that we live in an era where if you made bad decisions in the past, you can never be trusted to make good decisions ever again. Even if you own your bad decisions and show lots of improvement. Nope. Once a pariah, always a pariah.
Really? Why is everyone using FB, google?
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How can they be so obvlivious though? Their own blog post doesn't even mention the tarnished reputation Zoom has acquired lately. A lot of people will stop developing integrations for Keybase because of this. It's sad.
They aren’t. They are making a lot of money which is what the business was made for. The post is actually refreshingly honest that keybase is now abandoned and will probably die at some point. The idea that companies were stupid enough to place their internal identity on some random 3rd party is so incredibly stupid that it’s hard to feel too bad for anyone. Congrats Keybase!
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Yes, Matrix is properly end-to-end encrypted (with all keys generated clientside) and has been independently audited as such: https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/matrix-olm-crypto... . We have gone to huge efforts to prevent MITMs via device verification and cross signing - which specifically addresses both problems of a) losing chat history when you move between devices (via https://github.com/uhoreg/matrix-d…
Just to confirm, if I turn off backup, does anything stop working aside from needing at least one device to be operational at any given time? Edit: Specifically, is key backup tied to the ability to recover account history on a new device, or can I still get that with key backup disabled as long as I have at least one other device active? Edit 2: Can you address this paragraph: > One point for super-paranoid users: c…
> If I understand correctly, sounds like security is based on the complexity of your recovery passphrase and an implicit assumption that the passphrase doesn't get transmitted to the server... is that correct?
If you use cross-signing, then yes - your signing keys are stored protected by the recovery passphrase on the server. We also support gossiping them between devices (same as message keys), and there's no reason for them to have to persist on the server. We just need to hook up the UI to expose that as an option and we ran out of time to do that before shipping the initial release. It will follow shortly.
Honest question, why does Zoom’s security reputation matter more than Keybase’s? There’s so much pessimism in here but I really don't get it. I disliked zoom long before any of the security issues because frankly it’s rough, unpolished, software that’s never really worked well for me. I, for one, would be excited to get a functional Zoom with better security integrated into Keybase as an option for UI so that you hav…
Because Zoom is the buyer and they have the power. Sellers can make whatever promises they like (see: Whatsapp, Instagram) and it is reasonable to assume the buyer will have their way in the end.
Zoom will certainly use Keybase to improve their security overall. However, the rather obvious lack of commitment to existing users means there likely won't be any longterm.
My prediction: Zoom integrates well with keybase, there's a blog post that keybase is shutting down external services in a few months, the keybase founders leave and 1-2 years later, we hear of a new company they've founded.
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is this an acquihire then?
If so, it would be in the unusual shape that it is a top-dollar one rather than cover-the-failure-with-a-pretty-ending one. But in this case, Zoom is probably actually interested in the security tech that Keybase has apart from the talent, they're just not interested in the product.
For years people have been begging Keybase to allow them to pay them for the service and Chris Coyne always refused. Now they've lost their independence and they're owned by a communication company that has [edit: the majority of] its dev team in China. I use Keybase to talk to my friend in China since it's one of the few services they don't block. This is a pretty disappointing outcome.
Losing their independence was from the beginning the most likely outcome of building something that's hard to monetize like Keybase on the VC funding model. FWIW, I doubt Keybase offering a paid plan would have raised revenue that's significant compared to their burn, so Chris was probably right to not spend resources figuring out a paid offering. For raising their next round, having $5K in revenue from a paid plan f…
Don't founders often have the ability to overrule and make their own decisions?
Chris is already financially independent from the OKCupid sale, he could have open sourced the server code and/or reduced the overall burn to pivot to paid accounts.
Though the weird Stellar wallet addition implied some vision/product issues anyway.
Of course it's easy and probably unfair for me to say these things as an outsider with limited information and no real stake, it's definitely possible I'm wrong about important details that would change my mind. It'd be interesting to hear from Chris, but the sale probably restricts public communication?
This reminds me a little about the OKC sale actually, they had a blog post about why charging for dating sites made them worse that they took down after selling to match (they used to do cool analysis and publish them as blog posts, most of the details ended up in the book a different cofounder published called Dataclysm). That's more understandable to me though since I think it was their first exit.
Reading about Zulip - didn't you get bought by Dropbox before being open source? Is your current situation a lucky outcome - or was it a condition of the sale?
[Edit] - To clarify since there are downvotes, my questions aren’t rhetorical - they’re genuinely asking.