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

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-sour

https://schulz.dk/2026/04/06/the-cryptographic-zombie-how-keybase-went-from-privacy-darling-to-zooms-cleanup-crew/

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It seems that projects that would empower users suffer the EEE treatment.

Now propagandists are telling people to abandon PGP / GPG altogether.

Even the #cypherpunks mailing list got the EEE treatment.

There is a slightly similar proof system via #keyoxide.

#EEE #EmbraceExtendExtinguish
@octade
>Even the #cypherpunks mailing list got the EEE treatment.
When/how did this happen?
It was allowed to rot years ago. Now it is overrun with spam.