Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws

Re:Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, securi... by gruez on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:37AM (#22813863)

>Seeing as encryption is illegal in China

Source for this? That would make any https site in china illegal.

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Re:Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, securi... by fnord123 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @12:57PM (#22814717)

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.

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Re:Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, securi... by kube-system on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @12:38PM (#22814511)

Not an expert, but I searched and found this link which seems to explain it well:

tl;dr: encryption is not completely illegal, but it sounds like it's pretty tightly controlled.

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Re:Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, securi... by dontbenebby on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @03:48PM (#22816353)

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.

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