Re:Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, securi...
by fnord123 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:17AM
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Seeing as encryption is illegal in China, I don't think they will need to give up any keys.
Re:Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, securi...
by gruez on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:37AM
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>Seeing as encryption is illegal in China
Source for this? That would make any https site in china illegal.
Re:Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, securi...
by fnord123 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @12:57PM
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I'm sorry, I was wrong. It requires a license from the State Encryption Management Commission: http://www.cryptolaw.org/cls2.htm#prc
I am not a lawyer nor a cryptography expert who can advise whether licenses are granted easily or whether they are revoked if you fall out of favour.
Re:Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, securi...
by kube-system on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @12:38PM
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Not an expert, but I searched and found this link which seems to explain it well:
https://www.freshfields.com/en-us/our-thinking/campaigns/dig...
tl;dr: encryption is not completely illegal, but it sounds like it's pretty tightly controlled.
Re:Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, securi...
by dontbenebby on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @03:48PM
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I didn't think they'd be foolish enough to completely ban it.
They're not comically evil, they just have certain incentives.
Key escrow meets those goals.
Chinese servers, operating in China legally, will usually have this issue.
It's serious yes, but I'm confused if it only applied to users in China?
I'm more concerned about the technical issues TBH - I assume most software sanctioned in China had to turn over keys.