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Re:Keybase Exploding Messages by arkadiyt on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:27PM (#17358180)
It's for when you trust someone but don't want to risk either your or their device being compromised in the future. For instance:

- if your or their phone gets taken at a border crossing

- if your or their phone gets taken by the FBI (which is how they recovered encrypted WhatsApp/Signal chats from Michael Cohen's phone)

- etc

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Re:Keybase Exploding Messages by ProblemFactory on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:14AM (#17364371)
Or in a much simpler and common case: you trust someone right now to run a non-modified client and not to take screenshots, for example based on a corporate policy.

Months later the relationship turns sour, and they are fired or denied a promotion. They can't then go through the archives any more to take the screenshots.

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Re:Keybase Exploding Messages by cascom on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:42PM (#17358378)
thank you - this is what i was looking for
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