Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ...
by orsenthil on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:16PM
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I relied on Mozilla's guide and they seem to be perfectly OK with recommending Zoom as a video conferencing app
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categor...
Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ...
by staycoolboy on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:47PM
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This is very interesting. I do trust mozilla. However many of the security concerns stem from the dubious thing the Zoom installer does, which Mozilla's scorecard does not cover. I feel a little more at east with a Mozilla recommendation, however.
Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ...
by shacrw on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:45PM
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The above China concern is legit but a lot of the issues in the above links have been fixed in the updates ~2 months back.
Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws https://www.fastcompany.com/90486586/zoom-banned-from-new-yo...
Google Told Its Workers That They Can’t Use Zoom On Their Laptops Anymore https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans...
Elon Musk's SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoom-video-commn/e...
Beware of ‘ZoomBombing:’ screensharing filth to video calls https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/zoombombing/
Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/
Zoom security issues: Here's everything that's gone wrong (so far https://www.tomsguide.com/news/zoom-security-privacy-woes
Mass move to work from home in coronavirus crisis creates opening for hackers: cyber experts https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber/...
Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_...
‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-tech...
Ex-NSA hacker drops new zero-day doom for Zoom https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-nsa-hacker-drops-zero-1400...
Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/
Attackers can use Zoom to steal users’ Windows credentials with no warning https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/unpat...
The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-backlash-zero-days/
Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500,000 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdqgv/hackers-selling-cr...
Researchers found and bought more than 500,000 Zoom passwords on the dark web for less than a cent each https://www.businessinsider.com/500000-zoom-accounts-sale-da...