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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by CameronNemo on Monday August 15, 2022 @02:22PM (#32473373)
The source code is literally 20 lines, very easy to audit. You can put the static download in your Mozilla folder to avoid auto-updates. It is a nice quality of life thing for me. But yeah definitely not necessary as you can always edit the URL yourself, as the extension author helpfully notes.
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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by dylan604 on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:01PM (#32475329)
But that's 20 lines of code that I don't have to worry about just to get to a zoom link faster.

Let's face it, I'm about to join a Zoom call. How much faster do you really think I'm trying to get to it? This is actually one of those dark patterns I don't mind.

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