Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws

Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by eagsalazar2 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:47PM (#22782773)

This isn't about zoombombing, this is about their very odd and suspiciously terrible security practices and repeated abuse of user trust. Zoom should be ditched immediately by everyone.

The problem is that while Zoom is ok at best, and really pretty terrible for classroom (two kids + my fitness bootcamp are all virtual now), the user experience for everything else is really even worse. So in a time when we really need video chat, viable alternatives are scarce.

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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by eagsalazar2 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:59PM (#22782842)

iOS, Android, Linux, Democrats, Republicans, Zoom???

There is a lot of angry emotional fanboi-ism around Zoom that is very very odd to see in support of a video conferencing app. Whoever is downvoting comments like this, I'd love to hear your POV.

I feel like recent concerns over zoom are actually quite reasonable. I've never been a zoom hater, my company adopted it with my blessing and we continue to use it although we are now having reasonable, IMO, misgivings and considering alternatives.

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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by valuearb on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:25AM (#22793972)

Zoom is easy to use which is super important for kids doing remote schooling, it's security flaws are minor in the schooling context (and worst can be mitigated by having teachers admin the calls).

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