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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by djrogers on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:46PM (#23105059)
> until the day that product updates and analyses reveal otherwise.

The product (and their poor installer practice) has been updated several times in the past few months alone, and each move has made Zoom a more secure product, with the vast majority of the hubbub having been addressed. So are you simply ignoring that, or are you setting your own personal goalposts?

Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by purple-dragon on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:53PM (#23105161)
I'm doing neither. I'm pointing out a logical fallacy in the parent comment. Hiring people part-time and buying a company does not, on its own, convey anything about improvements to product quality, security, or the corporate culture of either. I can only infer from your comment that you might think I have some beef or issue with Zoom. I said no such thing.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by wutbrodo on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:15PM (#23105471)
Sure, but it's not "on its own", it's in the context of the investment in security mentioned by the parent comment.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by purple-dragon on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:28PM (#23105616)
At this point, I'm confused, and I'm not sure what point you or the other commenter are looking for me to concede. Zoom is paying some security consultants, pushed out some product updates, and bought Keybase, so it's a story book ending?
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by wutbrodo on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:31PM (#23109621)
Just as your comment was aiming to narrowly point out a logical fallacy in the parent comment, I'm pointing out a flaw in your own: I disagree with your claim that investing in security practices is just theater, and that more concrete efforts in the same direction are irrelevant. The concrete efforts are Bayesian evidence that the newer investments are more than theater.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by purple-dragon on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:49PM (#23111223)
I didn't claim that. I believe in investing in security. I'm a security professional.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by albedoa on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:04PM (#23116290)
You said that those things are theater until the day the product updates. We are beyond the day when that happened. So for it to be a fallacy you have to reject the context in which it was presented, which nobody but you is doing.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by purple-dragon on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:39AM (#23122781)
It's a SaaS world, baby. Product updates (can) happen everyday. I'm not sure what that proved.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by wutbrodo on Friday May 08, 2020 @04:16PM (#23118956)
Good catch, that was a misphrasing in my comment. I meant to say _Zoom's_ investments in security, not security investments in general.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by ViViDboarder on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:36PM (#23110473)
I am not looking for you to concede anything. You said nothing has been done to show you that the calculus of their priorities has changed and I listed some things that could possibly show that. It’s up to you if you believe that is significant enough to convince you.

Frankly, I don’t care if it does or not. I was just providing some visible signs of investment.

Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by purple-dragon on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:51PM (#23111225)
I didn't see you respond to my comment in this thread unless you post under two different accounts.