Keybase moves to stop onslaught of spammers on encrypted message platform

guest · Dec 6, 2019

Keybase moves to stop onslaught of spammers on encrypted message platform
Romance, drug, and blockchain scammers drawn to crypto-chat like flies to…
December 6, 2019
https://arstechnica.com/information...to-chat-spam-as-users-face-scammer-onslaught/

Keybase started off as co-founder and developer Max Krohn's "hobby project"—a way for people to share PGP keys with a simple username-based lookup.
Keybase aims to make public-key encryption accessible to everyone, for everything from messaging to file sharing to throwing a few crypto-coins someone's way.

[...] Keybase has also drawn in spammers and scammers. And that has brought a host of alerts and messages that have made what was once a fairly clear communications channel into one clogged with unwanted alerts, messages, and other unpleasantry—raising a chorus of complaints in Keybase's open chat channel.

Keybase's leadership is promising to do something to fix the spam problem—or at least make it easier to report and block abusers. In a blog post, Krohn and Coynes wrote, "To be clear, the current spam volume isn't dire, YET. Keybase still works great. But we should act quickly."
But the measures promised by Keybase won't completely eliminate the issue. And Keybase execs have no interest in getting involved with additional steps that they see as censorship.
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Other platforms have seen the same sort of problem. Romance scammers got their start on instant messaging platforms and quickly moved on to dating apps.
[...] there's no way to completely filter out the requests in the first place, as anyone can create a Keybase account and send a message to you.
Talk to the block
As part of the changes to Keybase being pushed out in an upcoming release, users will now be able to report spam or abusive messages straight from Keybase's chat interface—blocking that user with a click or tap, with the option of reporting the user to Keybase administrators.
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Any communications medium today should have the option of blocking all contacts from unknown individuals. Spam permeates every form of communication, it is pervasive and inescapable. If there isn't a compelling reason why you would need to receive messages from random, unknown people, closing off that access just makes sense.
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Keybase: Quick update on SPAM and UNSAVORIES on Keybase

mirimir · Dec 6, 2019

I've gotten some strange messages. And seen some iffy accounts, part of iffy "networks". Some kinky, and some that look a lot like child porn. Those, I report to Chris Coyne.

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