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Re:Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script by abiogenesis on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:44PM (#22754752)
Not entirely true. While Zoom as a company is not answerable to the Chinese government, the developers are.

Given that we have such horrible laws even in the "more democratic" parts of the world, such as Australia [1], it is not unthinkable that the Chinese government may ask a Chinese developer to install a backdoor to a foreign based product they are working on:

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46463029

> The Electronic Frontier Foundation has said police could order individual IT developers to create technical functions without their company's knowledge.

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Re:Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script by jdm2212 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:51PM (#22755826)
The same concern applies to any American company with Chinese offices, including Google, Facebook, etc.
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Re:Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script by kryogen1c on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:00AM (#22769192)
except its not an office, its the majority of their dev team operating inside one of the top 3 unsafest, most anti-american (with respect to cybersecurity) countries in the world.
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