WhatsApp's New Policy Has...

Fri Jan 8 19:31:56 UTC 2021

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 <richard at pedantictheory.com>
wrote:

> Has anyone considered or used Keybase?
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:14 PM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at 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.
>>
>
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