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"Don't come around here no more" -tompetty i hear along the lines.
Maybe you can go sunbathing with US-leaders, or US-businesspeople on behalf of their own island. But, come clear: you cashed out, and, in the far, far world, that you would invest the money back into the dev-world with a cut- you will ephemeral be remebered as: a cunt!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Possibly because of the confidentiality agreements everyone signs at the start of an acquisition?
I'm sure, I just found it amusing that it comes so soon after I directly asked about it!
Congrats to the keybase team, but I guess I'll just stop using it
Likewise. My friends and I have been using it throughout the pandemic to chat, I've been using it for years, but we're all deleting our accounts this morning. All around unsettling news as far as keybase software goes. Congratulations keybase team, though.
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.
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.
The disappointment comes from the loss of Keybase and what it could have been.
The main problem is Zoom having most of its development done via companies based in China. This means it is no longer possible for Keybase to achieve its original goal (and whatever encryption they add cannot fix this core problem).
It's one thing to accept the risk for video conferencing, but it's another to accept for an encryption ID standard.
I agreed with Chris Coyne's comments on HN a while back when he argued that the closed source server code didn't matter because of how they handled the encryption (when compared to Signal). While that's still true from a technical security standpoint, it looks like it does matter in a larger sense because this kind of sale shows that you can't really trust a company to act in its user's interests long-term.
With the shitshow that Zoom has turned out to be (there’s a long article on tidbits.com about the various issues), I don’t have any confidence that any part of Keybase as it exists now will survive. My belief is that it’ll shut down its services sometime this year or the next. I used it very rarely to verify certain identities, but am going to just delete my account and be done now.