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Keybase raises $10.8M

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Re: Keybase raises $10.8M

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Post by jsprogrammer »

leshow wrote: post #120
jsprogrammer wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Either you get it, or you don't. Yes, I like binary logic. Comments about the parent's author vs. comments about the commitment level of the people behind the parent's content's focused project (which is therefore a comment about the author's of Keybase) I guess there is a distinction there (or at least I just named some distinction), but I'm not really sure why one was judged more acceptable than the other. Edit: O…

relax, you came across like a frat boy. you got downvoted. stop talking now.

Ha!

Re: Keybase raises $10.8M

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Post by irq-1 »

mirimir wrote: post #112
irq-1 wrote: post #50

Keybase is the wrong way to do a PKI directory. First, people should have multiple keys/identities by default; multiple identities should be the normal thing everyone does. Single identities will be used by governments to control people. They'll also work against normal communication patterns where people speak differently to different groups (think parents, friends, coworkers.) Second, matching a name with social me…

First, Keybase is not just a website or app. It's an API, which happens to have them. Look at my keybase proof at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mirimir The key is at https://keybase.io/mirimir , but it could just as easily be at http://mirimir...onion or wherever. Multiple identities are trivial. Mirimir is just my primary persona for advocating privacy, anonymity, etc. Keybase links Mirimir's public GnuPG key…

> Multiple identities are trivial. ... linked to an entirely non-overlapping set of social accounts, with different friends etc.

That's not trivial, and it's certainly won't be the default, normal thing everyone does. Instead Keybase will encourage a single identity linking multiple accounts. This is fundamentally bad.

Re: Keybase raises $10.8M

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Post by mirimir »

irq-1 wrote: post #122
mirimir wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First, Keybase is not just a website or app. It's an API, which happens to have them. Look at my keybase proof at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mirimir The key is at https://keybase.io/mirimir , but it could just as easily be at http://mirimir...onion or wherever. Multiple identities are trivial. Mirimir is just my primary persona for advocating privacy, anonymity, etc. Keybase links Mirimir's public GnuPG key…

> Multiple identities are trivial. ... linked to an entirely non-overlapping set of social accounts, with different friends etc. That's not trivial, and it's certainly won't be the default, normal thing everyone does. Instead Keybase will encourage a single identity linking multiple accounts. This is fundamentally bad.

Having an identity and associated public keys that are fully validated is essential in many contexts. Let's say that I'm using a GitHub project, supposedly from a well-known Debian developer. Or let's say that I'm adding the Tor Project repository to Debian, in order to build the latest alpha release. Without well-known and readily validated public keys, how would I know what I was actually getting?

I agree that it's unusual to have multiple independent personas. It's quite common among my cohort, in order to provide deniability. Given the surveillance clusterfuck that's developing, deniability is becoming essential for everyone, even if they don't yet realize it. That will be especially important for young people, who are being profiled virtually from conception.

It does take some technical skill to establish multiple independent personas. One typically uses Linux and/or *BSD, virtualization, VPN services, Tor, Bitcoin, and so on. But getting up to speed only takes a few weeks.

Re: Keybase raises $10.8M

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Post by anfedorov »

petesoder wrote: post #4

"We have a new goal: to bring public key crypto to everyone in the world, even people who don't understand it." Love the vision, guys. Huge congrats! Looking forward to seeing this one unfold.

People who don't understand what public crypto is, or the details of the mathematics behind it?

Re: Keybase raises $10.8M

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Post by befwi »

ddworken wrote: post #77
keybase-please wrote: post #75

Can someone please send a Keybase invitation to: keybase-please@Safe-mail.net This help would be appreciated.

Just sent you an invite. If anyone else needs an invitation, I still have 8 left. Shoot me an email or reply here if you want one. Edit: 6 still left.

Please ? befwi@live.fr. Thanks
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