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Re:Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern by brawnelamia on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:46PM (#24307792)
My company prohibited and even remote-force uninstalled zoom and mandated Skype or MS Teams right after the last rash of bad zoom PR.

I feel pretty certain there was coordination from our Microsoft account manager and Microsoft's PR team on this front.

The funny part is that Skype is famous for zero days while zoom is famous for people running pseudo public non-password protected conference calls that got invaded by teenagers.

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Re:Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern by boogies on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:08PM (#24308133)
The less funny part is that to the HN users who together made https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23555226 my current most upvoted comment on HN, Zoom is known for “a history of shadiness (MacOS hidden server to prevent uninstallation), outright lies (E2EE), and attacking the pillars of democracy (censoring Chinese Americans discussing Tienanmen Square).”

Not that MS isn’t shady, dishonest, or even a deep state tool of oppression (in light of the Snowden leaks, and at least in some people’s view Github’s ICE contract).

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