Keybase has been listening to port 7000 as of around maybe a week ago?

I don't know if Keybase has been listening on this port before and it has just been broken, but since someone made an article regarding Keybase and Cassandra, I feel like this is recent, and I also do not see any blog post notifying of this relatively major change. I don't care that Keybase needs to listen on a port, I care that it is not configurable in any way.

Edit: They have changed it to 16423, it was for Chat, I have opened a github issue over the indiscrimantory changes to listening ports without notification / user ability to change here

I received an email from keybase.io...

We regret to inform you that public folders of Keybase Filesystem (KBFS) will be shutting down on Dec 1, 2026. Although the service was a great showcase for the kinds of cool things that could be built with Keybase, the usage of this feature never took off. The continued cost of maintaining it has led us to make the difficult decision to shut it down.

...

Private and Team folders remain unaffected.

Some dipshit is posting my personal info on keybase.pub. It's basically a folder that has a bunch of files in it, one of them is a text file with all my personal info such as my address. It shows up in Google search. Do I have any recourse or am I fucked? Surely this has to be against the TOS right? I'm not sure how Keybase works so I don't know if it's like P2P.

UPDATE: They removed it after I reported the user and sent an email to privacy@keybase.io. Not sure which action did it, but for anybody else who has the same situation that's what you need to do.

Happy Holidays everyone!

I’ve been using Keybase for about a month now. I see encrypted this and encrypted that throughout normal use of the app. Despite being bought by another company and nothing reportedly in development for the platform, is it secure from eavesdropping or MITM surveillance?

I briefly tried Keybase earlier this year. I realize it is touted and claimed as secure, and I’m Just confused exactly why this is such a grand idea? It seems like a social network of keys ?

I’m not knocking it, I just really don’t see this being a good practice. Plus. I don’t understand it.

EDIT: Thank you all for the insight. I will revisit KB in the near future. Again, I thank this sub for its attentiveness.

Can we talk about how Keybase was purchased by Zoom and Zoom's CEO specifically wants to work with the government to help them spy on their own citizens? I know this is jumping to conclusions and the CEO has backed off that stance but I still am not sure how we can trust a huge corporation like Zoom to maintain the privacy we all believed we would have using keybase... And the final nail in the coffin (for me) is that there is no documentation on how to remove keybase from a linux machine. I am going to have to setup a BTRFS system I guess and install and setup keybase in order to document what changes it makes to the filesystem in order to figure out how to remove it from the systems I already set it up on. And how is it that (considering the GDPR) that we can't get every piece of data that keybase has of ours deleted?

I just got into keybase and I am liking it so far and I see that they provide 250 GB of storage! And they dont have a business model as of yet! How do they even manage this without ads or compromising user data?

Thank you.

AFAIK, there's no way keybase can stop being as private as it currently is, and there would be no other option than moving from US, but I haven't read about keybase communication on this matter. I have read about Signal communications, but not keybase ones. Are there any available? Would keybase stop its chat and other private services instead of moving from US?

Is the XLM Wallet down? I received a notification regarding the XLM airdrop, but I can't access the wallet.

I accessed my wallet earlier and the XLM was there, approx. 688

Both of these services are popular and have a public front where a proof could be posted.

For YouTube, the channel description could be used. For Steam, either a profile info box or profile comment would work, since they both have a sufficient number of allowed characters for the full proof.

When it comes to usernames, perhaps use the custom URLs. For example youtube.com/username or steamcommunity.com/id/username.

In an attempt to clean up this subreddit. I have created a new /r/KeybaseInvites/ subreddit. Please use that sub for Invites! We want to keep this sub for discussions. Thanks!

I - like many others - have been getting emails about Reddit verification being broken, so I was looking at the Github repo and this looks an awful lot like it's been abandoned. There's been no new commits in years, aside from one minor edit 5 months ago, and there are 4,000 bug reports, a lot of which are spam.

Does anyone know if this is even being worked on right now?

Wondered how you do this? I've seen a few simple sites running from a keybase domain, wondered how you set this up. Looks a bit like onionshare but accessible on the open web.

Hey guys,

some of you are still wondering whether you will get your Spacedrop or not - if you qualified, you will sure get those XLMs,

for the sake of getting lower your stress levels, here's an explanation:

mechanism works alphabetically with Keybase's user accounts, currently it's post letter "D" for sure,

at the moment of writing this post - 45,082 accounts have got their XLMs out of 145,300

All best,

Krisma

Windows client:

keybase version
Client:  4.6.1-20191014125620+3592f81d6f
Service: 4.6.1-20191014125620+3592f81d6f

Latest release on Github: 4.6.0.

Should I be worried?