The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS

Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by MereInterest on Saturday August 13, 2022 @06:19AM (#32448448)

I can't stand this feature, because it overrides my OS-level choice. If I select my headset as the microphone to use, then I expect it to be used. But Zoom might use a different microphone, so I need to change it there as well.

In addition, even if I select "System default microphone", that doesn't always work correctly. As far as I can tell, that option doesn't mean to attach to the default source. Instead, it means to attach to the same source that is currently bound to the default source. If I change the default source later, Zoom doesn't get moved along with it.

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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by mijoharas on Saturday August 13, 2022 @06:56AM (#32448628)

Some recent update of zoom and or pipewire made this absolutely broken. I need to manually go and change my Bluetooth headset source from A2DP to HSP before opening zoom or it crashes and I can't select any microphone.

It's insanely annoying. Zoom has caused more crashes ob my machine than any other piece of software.

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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by scarface74 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @09:08AM (#32449535)

My wife had a mixer attached to her Mac where she plugged in her phone for music and her wireless mic when she was teaching online dance classes during the height of Covid. She absolutely needed to be able to switch to the mixer which registers as a sound input device separate from system settings when she was doing anything else.

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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by shaan7 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @07:05AM (#32448701)

True. I keep it at "System default microphone" but its not 100% reliable. BUT, that is also the case with every other conferencing tool as well (Meet, Teams etc). At least in Zoom its easier to quickly override it when things go south.

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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by wil421 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @07:08AM (#32448713)

Same issues here. I don’t care that my dock has a mic port that Zoom and Teams think they should automatically use. Use the damn system setting for my hardwired headset mic.

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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by shaan7 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @01:28PM (#32451937)

Yeah the dock thing sucks. My workaround is to permanently disable the dock (and the webcam's) mic device.

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