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Guess I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, Microsoft acquired GitHub, IBM acquired RedHat.
Startpage by an ad company.
PIA by an anti privacy malware company.
Keybase being a slack competitor merging with zoom makes much more sense in retrospect. Zoom is insecure while keybase is seen as secure.
Companies are purchasing competitors or revenue stealers.
you mean... to help you sort out your false advertising.
I just pulled a random page from Dec 25 of 2019 from internet archive where the site says this:
Meet securely End-to-end encryption for all meetings, role-based user security, password protection, waiting rooms, and place attendee on hold.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191225055029/https://zoom.us/m...
Fake it til you make it?
> Zoom has not and will not build a mechanism to decrypt live meetings for lawful intercept purposes.
> We also do not have a means to insert our employees or others into meetings without being reflected in the participant list. We will not build any cryptographic backdoors to allow for the secret monitoring of meetings.
One court + gag order and all of these promises are out the window.
Strange combination.
(Keybase's crypto stuff is nifty, but we all know there is no money in that. They tried to make money by integrating cryptocurrency, and people did NOT seem to like that. So here we are.)
Isn't this just all inevitable? Aren't all these startups just lining up all in the hopes just to get acquired?
I guess when we see VC Funded™ on any startup what it _really means_ is that:
"We are prioritising a return for our investors even if it means violating our mission statement".
Looks 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…
Given 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.
Attention people starting businesses: VC funding is fun and all, but please, have a business model. Your users and employees depend on it.