Thanks Dave, I missed that... *he says as he deletes Keybase* On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:36 PM Dave Phelps <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Has anyone considered or used Keybase? >> >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:14 PM Mark Tinka <[email protected]> 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. >>> >>
