Re:You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may lis...
by trelane on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:01PM
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My first introduction to Zoom was their malware-like pre-install install. https://twitter.com/c1truz_/status/1244737672930824193
Re:You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may lis...
by SllX on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:16PM
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That was March 2020?
This is from July 2019: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/07/10/zoom
After they were called out, supposedly they fixed it, but that tweet you just linked looks like more of the same nonsense which goes right back to my original point: reputation matters. If the first could be taken as honestly naïve, the second proves it was not. Zoom doesn’t go on anything I own or control.
Re:You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may lis...
by GekkePrutser on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:34AM
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For me the problem was that they were called out about the backdoor they installed on Macs, and then totally refused to do anything about it, and it took Apple to actually incorporate a system update to remove Zoom's malware.
I understand 'mistakes' happen (though this was way too elaborate to be a mistake). But to just shrug it off and refuse to do anything when it's discovered is just total ignorance of security.
The first time I had ever heard of Zoom, it was long before the pandemic and it was about how Zoom was a videoconferencing app that was installing an http server (read, a security hole on the user’s computer) which remained even if you deleted the app. This was to “improve the user experience” so that it could quickly reinstall itself if you clicked one of their web widgets to start a call.
It’s worth checking in on exactly what software is doing in the background, auditing its activity and coming to a more precise understanding of 1. The reputation of the company behind it and 2. How they came to have this reputation and whether it is still relevant.