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0 pointsadtac1y ago0 comments

Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their CEO? :)

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diggan1y ago· 4 in thread

No need, the user profile (cryptographically) links to their keybase profiles which corroborates the identity. The future is here! :)

rtpg1y ago

Funnily, the way I used to check Keybase profiles is to check Twitter because a blue checkmark there was usually a good indication of them being "the famous person" but thanks to Twitter Blue that feature is no longer usable.

I understand Keybase allows you to link up a bunch of accounts, but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately.

diggan1y ago

> but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately

At least a GitHub profile link can usually be used to validate that this account actually has write access to a GitHub organization, so you can somewhat see it's the right person. Requires them to have pushed any public commits to within that organization though.

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roland351y ago

And... How do we know the key base profile is correct?

diggan1y ago

Here is how Keybase works: https://book.keybase.io/docs/server

Then take a look at the HN profile, which leads you to the Keybase profile.

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5 comments · 1 top-level

diggan1y ago· 4 in thread

No need, the user profile (cryptographically) links to their keybase profiles which corroborates the identity. The future is here! :)

rtpg1y ago

Funnily, the way I used to check Keybase profiles is to check Twitter because a blue checkmark there was usually a good indication of them being "the famous person" but thanks to Twitter Blue that feature is no longer usable.

I understand Keybase allows you to link up a bunch of accounts, but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately.

diggan1y ago

> but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately

At least a GitHub profile link can usually be used to validate that this account actually has write access to a GitHub organization, so you can somewhat see it's the right person. Requires them to have pushed any public commits to within that organization though.

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roland351y ago

And... How do we know the key base profile is correct?

diggan1y ago

Here is how Keybase works: https://book.keybase.io/docs/server

Then take a look at the HN profile, which leads you to the Keybase profile.

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