Goodbye forever, Keybase. 👋🏻 Zoom buys Keybase—its first acquisition—as part of a 90-day plan to fix security flaws acquisition tastes like a pr play, but a really bizarre one because keybase was super niche. acquisitions almost never successfully transfer technology - keybase's engineers aren't going to "connect" their golang ground-up security into whatever glue & twine holds together zoom

Goodbye forever, Keybase. 👋🏻

Zoom buys Keybase—its first acquisition—as part of a 90-day plan to fix security flaws

acquisition tastes like a pr play, but a really bizarre one because keybase was super niche. acquisitions almost never successfully transfer technology - keybase's engineers aren't going to "connect" their golang ground-up security into whatever glue & twine holds together zoom
— Tom MacWright (@tmcw) May 7, 2020

🔗 Thu, May 7, 2020 at 10:49am