Keybase was purchased by Zoom ( https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/zoom-buys-keybase-in-first-deal-as-part-of-plan-to-fix-security.html). >From what I've gathered, Zoom is too tight with, owned by, or run by China, so I believe there was a similar mass exodus from Keybase for lack of trust.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:17 PM Richard Porter <rich...@pedantictheory.com> wrote: > Has anyone considered or used Keybase? > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:14 PM Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 1/8/21 19:26, Drew Weaver wrote: >> >> > This might be anecdotal but there is a ton of debate about whether or >> not Telegram is encrypted. >> > >> > This is not anecdotal though, on Wednesday night I saw an interview >> with a security expert on CNBC and he indicated that they knew that the >> riots in DC were going to happen because they had been "monitoring the >> extremists Telegram groups". What they didn't say was whether or not they >> were simply members of those groups, or monitoring from a >> "networking/technology" sense. I'm not sure if Signal does groups the same >> way that Telegram does but that one is widely believed to be much better >> than Telegram as far as privacy and security. >> > >> > Telegram is a tremendously useful (and free service) for connecting to >> Elastalert for all manner of notifications, but we have since moved to >> Teams for that just because we can't really be sure what is going on under >> the hood with Telegram. >> > >> > Just some things that I have observed, not trying to start a holy war. >> >> My rudimentary understanding of Telegram is that group messages are >> client-server, which is why new members can read old posts when they >> join a group. >> >> Signal, on the other hand, is p2p for members within the group. No >> messages are ever sent to their cloud. >> >> Mark. >> >
