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atonse on March 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Could keybase.io do for crypto what GitHub did for...

Doesn't matter - same with github. If you don't want to use their service, you stop.

It's just like saying, I don't want to list my phone number in this phone book. Doesn't make your phone number any less valid.

JulianMorrison on March 25, 2014 [–]

Github sells private repos.

atonse on March 25, 2014 | [–]

Sure, but my point is that if key base folded, there's nothing inherently "key base" about any of the underlying data. You still have your key pairs and can put them up somewhere else.

There's almost zero impact to you if they shut down.

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