Visit to get more info, or to get involved. This post is day 14 of my # 100DaysToOffload challenge. So if it does all go south with Zoom, I’ll delete my account then.ĭoing it right now, so soon after the announcement, feels like I would be cutting my nose off to spite my face. There’s nothing on my Keybase profile that is sensitive or private (except my private key, but like I said, that’s not a big deal). But they could also be mutually beneficial to one another. Yes, they could make the Keybase team focus only on the Zoom codebase. It’s only been a day since Keybase made the announcement, so it’s impossible to say what the future will hold. Our team is passionate about security and privacy, and it is an honor to be able to bring our encryption expertise to a platform used by hundreds. Keybase is thrilled to join Team Zoom said Max Krohn, Keybase.io co-founder and developer. Bringing on a cohesive group of security engineers like this significantly advances our 90-day plan to enhance our security efforts. Zoom have had their problems, but I think that’s more indicative of their incredibly quick rise, rather than the potential that they’re inherently bad. Keybase brings deep encryption and security expertise to Zoom, and we’re thrilled to welcome Max and his team.

But I’m not deleting Keybase.Īt the moment, I don’t know what Keybase and Zoom are going to be doing.

It would be trivial for the Fosstodon team to move to another platform like Mattermost. Keybase Teams would be more difficult, but still straightforward. I can also use this site as a means to verify my online identities, simply posting links to my various online profiles and domains. It wouldn’t be a problem to generate a new key pair and publish my public key on this website. Therefore it’s no problem to delete them. The keys I have stored on Keybase are different to the keys I use elsewhere. Well, I could delete Keybase relatively easily. So I would class myself as a fairly heavy Keybase user.

We also use Keybase Teams as a means for collaboration across the Fosstodon team. In a blog post, Zoom called the acquisition, another milestone in its 90-day plan to further strengthen the security of our video communications platform. The companies did not disclose the price tag. I use it as a way to verify my online identities, I also use it as a place to host my my PGP keys so that people can easily email me encrypted messages. Zoom has acquired Keybase, a security and cryptography company, weeks after the teleconferencing platform faced a backlash over concerns about its privacypolicies. What happens to our keys now is anyone’s guess. I think most can agree that after the acquisition, there’s no more reason to trust the platform and thus to use it. This has sparked a lot of consternation within the open source community and a lot of people have decided to delete their Keybase accounts. So if you hadn’t heard, Zoom have acquired Keybase.

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