Two months ago, I asked about PGP key repositories. Russell mentioned keybase, then seemed to disparage it in a subsequent email. I thought no more about it.
And then ... --- I am transitioning from CentOS to Mate-Ubuntu 20.04. The laptop beside me is running a days-old "standard" Mate-Ubuntu install, for learning and experiments and similar mayhem. The taskbar shows a small dribble network activity. Who ordered this mess? sudo netstat -tupn ... suggests that activity is three open 443 ports for keybase (!) connected to three AWS instances. WTF? I did not intentionally install keybase. It is probably part of the standard Ubuntu load. I probably don't want it, and I may not want it within 100 meters of any of my computers. But before I terminate the sumbitch with extreme prejudice, then follow dodgy intertube-suggested procedures to remove keybase and its files from my systems and hard disk, is there any reason to keep keybase, and endure its pesky mosquito-like drain on my network bandwidth? Are there any keybase-created files I should keep around JUST IN CASE, perhaps on an 8 inch CPM floppy disk in a waterproof bag hidden in the toilet tank? Should I trust the MateUbuntu install DVD that gifted me with ... THIS? Or should I wipe and reinstall from a different DVD install image ... and from what repository? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
