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VoxPelli ◴[14 Oct 24 17:06 UTC] No.41839491[source]▶
Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device?

It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/, neither on https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram?

They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before

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zhovner ◴[14 Oct 24 17:31 UTC] No.41839748[source]▶
Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret.

Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.

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1. adtac ◴[14 Oct 24 19:49 UTC] No.41841177[source]▶
Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their CEO? :)
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2. diggan ◴[14 Oct 24 20:00 UTC] No.41841305[source]▶
No need, the user profile (cryptographically) links to their keybase profiles which corroborates the identity. The future is here! :)
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3. roland35 ◴[14 Oct 24 21:24 UTC] No.41842189[source]▶
And... How do we know the key base profile is correct?
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4. diggan ◴[14 Oct 24 21:41 UTC] No.41842323{3}[source]▶
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. bloopernova ◴[14 Oct 24 22:14 UTC] No.41842642{4}[source]▶
I really wish keybase had taken off. I should have realized it was going to fail once they started adding the cryptocurrency wallet.
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6. diggan ◴[14 Oct 24 22:48 UTC] No.41843004{5}[source]▶
Keyoxide seems OK as an alternative: https://keyoxide.org/aspe:keyoxide.org:Q6B7ZBQITV7IE2RG4EMVK...

Doesn't have any of the social "features".

7. rtpg ◴[15 Oct 24 00:09 UTC] No.41843593[source]▶
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.

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8. diggan ◴[15 Oct 24 00:44 UTC] No.41843778{3}[source]▶
> 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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9. rtpg ◴[15 Oct 24 01:07 UTC] No.41843914{4}[source]▶
Fair point, yeah.