![]() Since the lockdown, Zoom has become a household name.Ĭompanies adopted Zoom because it works on the broadest range of platforms. Zoom, as you are probably aware, makes video conferencing software. For example, you could prove to a third party that your Medium user and your Reddit user were in-fact the same people. Perhaps the big, killer feature is being able to prove the connection between one online identity and another. Primarily, I use Keybase as a directory to store access keys for other services-and for this, I loved it. ![]() For cloud storage, I mostly use Google and AWS. Many use Keybase to chat in a secure way. Additionally, it offers an end-to-end encrypted chat and cloud storage system, called Keybase Chat and the Keybase Filesystem respectively. Keybase is a key directory that maps social media identities to encryption keys (including, but not limited to PGP keys) in a publicly auditable manner. This darling of security can no longer be trusted. You see Keybase has just been purchased by an unsavory outfit. In fact, I'd already made the final code available for those signed up to my newsletter. And although it would be easy to publish the piece as is-I mean who could blame me for following the documentation, it wouldn't be right. It's featured in Terraform's own documentation-several times. The issue: I was using the third-party service, Keybase. This week, I intended to publish part 3 on increased security. ![]() Last month I started writing a new series on Terraform. Morally, I can't publish the article I'd written. David / 10 June 2020 Why the service for "keeping everyone's chats and files safe" can no longer be trusted
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