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		lorenzsell on July 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slack Security Incident I’m a little confused here. Isn’t Keybase a slack replacement product? Why is the CEO of Keybase using Slack for any company communication instead of his own service? Am I missing something obvious here?

oconnor663 on July 20, 2019 [–]

It's described in the article:

> what we did use it for, which was discussing outages of our own product

You can't use Keybase to communicate about why Keybase is down :)

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