What usually happens after M&A is if the acquired product isn't a profit-maker, they "integrate" it into other products and it goes into maintenance mode, eventually to be sunset. If the product did make money, they'd re-brand it and keep development going... unless they have plans to integrate the product's core feature into a larger corporate product (Zoom) that a separate branded product would compete against internally.
It seems like keybase has been eaten and absorbed into the Zoom app, and the rest will be flushed.
Are they not allowed to shift priorities as they grow? I'm sure there are many things you genuinely care for these days which wouldn't have been true a few years ago. It would be dismissive for me to assert you don't truly care about those things, would it not?
That's not fair. A lot of companies start off not caring about security because they just need to ship and grow. They add security later after they get owned or when they need to take on the type of customer that also genuinely care about security. Maybe they didn't care before and they care now. That's allowed.
I disagree. At this point, there's no real reason to just not care about security from day one.
There's a wealth of tools and docs, and users are becoming more and more conscious (which is fantastic, for the record!). There's the obvious ethics of keeping the data your users entrust you with safe to the best of your abilities, too.
There's a real reason to not care about security from day one... the competitor who doesn't care will beat you to market, and then you don't get a day 2.
Sorry, but the vast majority of people just don't care. Customers want a working product.
Yours is the only comment on this thread so far that mentions hashes. Care to explain what you mean by hashes in this context, and what benefit you think zoom would get from acquiring them?
They were acquired to appease investors/public relations during the explosive pandemic growth phase when a multitude of security issues were uncovered.
