Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?

Re:Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and a... by aFaid7see0ni on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:03PM (#28215774)

Zoom has a paid feature to view processes of other meeting attendees. Yes. Scary.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and a... by Gene_Parmesan on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:23PM (#28215940)

This seems to be a viral inaccuracy: https://www.howtogeek.com/664624/does-zoom-really-monitor-wh...

That article claims that Zoom does have a feature allowing hosts to see whether people have the zoom window focused while someone is presenting, but it doesn't allow the host to actually see running processes. Note that I can't, nor do I claim to, vouch for the accuracy of the explanation in the link. Just something I found.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and a... by EMM_386 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @08:45PM (#28216511)

> That article claims that Zoom does have a feature allowing hosts to see whether people have the zoom window focused while someone is presenting

It used to but it was removed.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Atten...

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and a... by phgn on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:06PM (#28215802)

I don't believe that, would be way too scary. Do you have a link?

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and a... by pizza on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:06PM (#28215800)

Can you explain this? Not sure how to look this up

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