If you trusted keybase to keep your chats and files safe, good news! Your circle of trust has just been expanded. https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1258387165244874752 …
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We talk a lot about network effects, but the fact that our entire software ecosystem is a tower of defects also drives consolidation and creates a formidable barrier to entry in online services where a little more competition would benefit us allpic.twitter.com/aYpt3NzMw1
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I think Bruce Schneier used this analogy: on the Internet, we are all peasants in 14th century Europe whose one hope for safety is bending the knee to a sufficiently powerful feudal lord in return for a modicum of safety. And then the lord takes away our reader app and escape key
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And in that way very similar to what nation states offer, ie a monopoly on violence within their borders. And they go to war to guard that monopoly.
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I dunno if it's that the bicycle is prone to explode without warning. It's more like that it's liable to be stolen if not locked up, and attacked with a sawzall if it is. We carry heavy locks and bring the bikes in at night because of external malice, not internal defect.
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Except most users don't notice or care about the explosion, and the market doesn't, either?
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The reason only the biggest companies fund security isn't because it's so hard only big companies can do it. It's that to most users it's so unimportant that only companies with deep pocketbooks and lots of potential reputational damage are willing to lay out for it.
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Yes this is how it is. Maybe unplace of "a few hundred" -> "9,000 people in the world" But as the need for a product goes up the potential money for it goes up, and over time the cist of making it goes down. If keybase is compromised, we can make another
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@ThreemaApp as a secure chat platform : )
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