08-04-2020, 01:05 PM
(08-02-2020, 09:53 AM)daniel Wrote: Thank you for the warning. As in the article says, many of us do not have the option, since our companies use zoom for meetings.
I think from when this article was written, Zoom has added encryption. Anyway, I get your point...
Zoom is a bad faith operator - you cannot trust their software because they are required under Chinese rule to comply with design choices that give the government access to the streams. China is known to be harvesting biometrics and personal data and are actively engaged in sowing dissent in the West.
They keep reporting fixes for complaints, such as "added encryption," but on review, the fixes are not secure. They have an unremovable deliberate man in the middle hole in their service that won't go away. It's a feature, not a bug, and it's not intended to make your life better.
We're in a globalized economy and China is ignoring inconvenient things like privacy rights and civil liberties, and there's no mechanism to hold them accountable. It's terrible that all modern technology is now dependent on Chinese factories, but you can start moving the world in a better direction by making good consumer decisions about software.