He’s an American. His wife is an American. His kids are American.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/21/zoom-founder-left-job-becaus...

You know NSA is an American Agency, and America is not China - there is a free enterprise. The only way they can "arm-twist" you is by rules and regulations that every company has to follow. In other words - NSA cannot force you to break the law.

Where is this so-called "arm-twisting" ??

Even if it wasn't a metaphor the US has been known to physically harass people for Software more than any other regardless of what the people did.

Some examples please?

Unless what you saying is that some programmer neck was crushed for 8 minutes because they didn't want to implement backdoor??

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...

... oh wait your premise disqualifies that.

Well Arabia and Russia are starting to force data being processed and stored in their territory by blocking foreign comm-tech. But i don't think that is a solution, that is just digital nationalism driven by fear of espionage and demand for the power of mass surveillance.

What "the world" should do is lobby against nation-states and mega-corps having their noses in everything, because it is a central building block of totalitarianism. Even if the state doesn't go all out authoritarian, it opens back doors that leave people vulnerable to abuse by bad actors.

You sidestepped my main point, that US/CCP is a laughably false equivalency.

A proven case? Look at Crypto AG. Sure one might argue the whole company was planted, so it doesn't count ...

For regular citizens, in USA, isn't having NSA know your stuff worse than having CCP know it?

Chinese as in "under the jurisdiction the Chinese government"? Well... quite a bit. The comment was pretty specific about it being the location.

Wait, what??

While this is true, both he and his wife were born in China, and it's not clear if they renounced their Chinese citizenship. I buy their explanation that development is done in China to save money, but it's an interesting choice for someone so concerned with looking like an American company.

Why not? As I'm in the UK I assume that either I use a USA based product and have my data open to USA government sponsored TLAs, or use proprietary products from other countries and have their secret agencies have some sort of access.

With Five-Eyes, or Maximator, mainstream development in one of the countries involved suggests there's going to be intelligence agency access.

For private citizens access by CCP is probably (unless you have links to China) far lower risk than using software connected to Western nations.

I don't have need of secret communications really; Jitsi (meet.jit.si serves my needs when I get to choose the video chat software; family and friends seem happy with it).

People use it because it's currently the best product.

For us at our university, ease of use and the fact that it allows the speaker of a talk to see the audience while sharing screen made it the preferable tool.

Sorry for the amp link I'm in a hurry I have a zoom call in a few minutes

https://www.google.com/amp/s/technode.com/2020/04/13/is-zoom...

It would have taken you less time to fetch the original link than to type that.

I'm on mobile, it was part true. I really had no idea I needed to click on that tiny i and didn't have time to do a search by title.

Typing in mobile is really fast type days. I have a full keyword/small phone. I started training myself to type faster on mobile by coding on a mobile editor a few years ago. It is so much more difficult at first but you become more focused with time. Add in a free editor app with ad popups every few minutes for additional challenge.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...