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Keytrace takes ideas from Keybase and Keyoxide and brings them to the decentralized web.
Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data
Microsoft complied with a warrant to hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI, and privacy advocates are worried.

Revisiting Keyed-Verification Anonymous Credentials
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Revisiting Keyed-Verification Anonymous Credentials
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Keyoxide Docs
Keyoxide is a privacy-friendly tool to create and verify decentralized online identities.
Unkey's Globally Distributed API key generation - with cofounder James Perkins
It's Time To Leave Microsoft
Contrary to what you might believe from the title, this article isn't published to try to convince you to leave Microsoft (although, if you are still on the fence, please continue reading the section below); instead of providing you with a paralyzing amount of dystopian information that is already available
Securing our future: July 2026 progress report on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative | Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft’s latest Secure Future Initiative report outlines progress on secure foundations, AI-powered defense, and future-ready cybersecurity.

Vulnerability
Other numbers are largely unaffected, but anyone using '4' for their certificate key is urged to upgrade to '5'.

I don't like passkeys | Ethan Hawksley
Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.

Microsoft, I forgive you!
Microsoft is different now. The evil masterminds are all retired. No more Ballmer jumping around screaming for developers, developers, developers. No more Gates plotting monopoly schemes for world …
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is one of the "Big Five" tech giants, well known for licensing...

GPG Key Transition Statement - Michael Altfield's Tech Blog
After 8 years, I’ve decided to transition from my original GPG key and replace it with one that uses a stronger master key that meets NIST guidelines. Over 8 years ago–probably while lounging in my tiny dorm room in engineering school–I decided that I wanted the ability to communicate with my friends & family privately. I decided that I wanted the ability to encrypt my emails. I decided to generate a gpg key. In 2009–4 years before Edward Snowden unveiled that the US government was violating their own constitution by collecting & storing the internet activity of hundreds of millions of innocent US citizens–I generated & published my first gpg keypair. Since those teenage years, I graduated college with degrees in Computer Science and Secure Computing & Networking, worked for major tech firms, and begun working for the best independent journalism outlet in the US–Democracy Now! Though my colleagues, friends, & family infrequently used my gpg key in the past (don’t tell the NSA!), I finally work with a great team of people that take security seriously, and I’m using gpg to sign & encrypt my daily work emails. Unfortunately, my original master key was generated using gpg’s defaults . . . → Read More: GPG Key Transition Statement
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Keybase Book
Use Keybase for end-to-end encrypted chat messaging, file sharing, and team collaboration. Get the free app for iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, and Linux.