Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China

Re:Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys th... by Leary on Friday April 03, 2020 @03:48PM (#22773306)

"Wow. What could all of these people possibly be doing?"

There are 20,000 google engineers working in "research and development", what could all of these people possibly be doing?

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Re:Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys th... by derision on Friday April 03, 2020 @03:51PM (#22773325)

Google is many orders of magnitudes larger than Zoom. Zoom has one product, Google has thousands of products, many more complex than Zoom.

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Re:Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys th... by kaesar14 on Friday April 03, 2020 @04:04PM (#22773425)

Yeah, 28x the engineers for research at Google makes sense -- I'd say the work Google is doing is at least 28x more expansive, complex, etc. 700 engineers is quite a lot for a company of this size!

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Re:Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys th... by BurningFrog on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:41PM (#22774641)

Google has maybe 5 products that matter.

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Re:Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys th... by harumph on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:30PM (#22774123)

Violating humanity's privacy?

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