Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
by Godel_unicode on Friday March 27, 2020 @06:28PM
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This use of the word security drives me insane; security is composed of availability, integrity, and confidentiality weighed against each other. Having 0 confidentiality controls (hypothetically, not that this is the case here) is not necessarily insecure.
Privacy is not a synonym for security. It's not even necessarily a requirement for good security.
This sounds right to me.
Last week on Zoom, I attended an online conference (https://www.daniellitt.com/agonize/), and participated in a D+D game. Privacy and security weren't priorities. (Indeed, complete video of the conference has since been posted.)
That said, there have been problems, see for example here:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/03/26/zoombombers-d...
Some random trolls apparently joined a Zoom class and made jackasses of themselves.