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The Cryptographic Zombie: How Keybase Went from Privacy Darling to Zoom’s Cleanup Crew - SCHULZ:DK

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Once the ultimate geek flex for cypherpunks, Keybase promised to make PGP cryptography accessible to mere mortals. Today, it hovers in the digital ether as a "zombie" app. Here is the story of how a revolutionary open-source identity platform was cannibalized to become Zoom's corporate cleanup crew.