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The time between them modifying the files and someone noticing isn't a trivial detail. It's the same idea behind 0-day exploits: perform an attack until someone catches you.



Except in this case keybase can only be caught once. Then all of their usage, prestige, funding, etc goes away.

Considerably different than an anonymous attacker.


This assumes that Keybase are the attacker




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