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Re:Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoo... by rahoulb on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:59AM (#20412007)
I wouldn't call it a bug. Zoom deliberately engineered their app so it opened a security threat, accessible from any website on your browser, on your local machine without the user's knowledge. Then they reinstalled their software after the user had uninstalled it. Again, deliberately engineered that way.

That is not a bug

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Re:Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoo... by fauigerzigerk on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:28PM (#20415475)
Zoom's intention was not to introduce a security vulnerability. That's why I'm calling it a bug.
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Re:Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoo... by rahoulb on Friday July 12, 2019 @09:10AM (#20420410)
Their intention was to bypass an inbuilt security measure. So no, maybe they didn't mean to add a vulnerability but they did mean to reduce the security of the system as a whole
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