Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake

Re:Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake by keidjfks on Sunday April 05, 2020 @07:19AM (#22785010)

So everybody here doing the "mistake" thing as if there's the slightest sign that this was on purpose. Despite their explaination is 100% consistent - the only comment I'd expect from a technical knowledgable person is "yeah that's the kind of mistake that happens when you need to juggle a shitton of load in a global customer base."

Having geofencing in their routing algorithms is state of the art, and probably more advanced than most other services.

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Re:Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake by ulucs on Sunday April 05, 2020 @07:44AM (#22785098)

They accidentally whitelisted Chinese servers for non-Chinese users. What does that have to do with anything technical or scaling? It'd be a scaling mistake if the whitelists didn't exist because they thought Chinese servers would never be chosen because of the distance, but they already knew that could happen.

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