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You are using a video conference application mostly developed by Chinese – Zoom

19 points by zanter 7y ago

gumby 7y ago
So what? What point is the author trying to make? Do we need a followup expose revealing what language the code was written in?
onyva 7y ago
Any non free software tool (or open source), USA on Chinese, would be a risk, no?
- badrabbit 7y ago
  No. Specifics matter.
rolandog 7y ago
An interesting thing to also note is that their public signing key has a typo on it ("Zoom Video Communcations", missing an 'i' in 'Communications'). It might be a benign mistake, but as an occasional tin-foil hat wearer, this raises some flags. I reported it a couple of months ago, but the initial support rep. didn't seem to know much about cryptography. I forgot to reply then, but seeing this article pushed me to remind them to look into it with an explanation and request for escalation.
- badrabbit 7y ago
  This means nothing for TLS,but a bit suspicious for code signing
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PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
This failed to mention the fact that Zoom was caught planting malware on people's computers last year. https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-app/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-a...
unlinked_dll 7y ago
Putting R&D in China is basically asking the question, "can I make more money before an employee expatriates my product?" Interesting thing about zoom though is that the technical side of it doesn't seem particularly complex so I guess their value is their enterprise customers and aversion to change. Also if someone at zoom can answer this for me: why do you require a desktop app to function? Can you please kill it if you're only going to legitimately support windows? Just use a webpage.
- sloucher 7y ago
  A desktop app is able to access much more of your local system than a web page, so... :-)
- kyelewis 7y ago
  I’ve never had an issue with their MacOS app, what do you mean by “only.. legitimately support windows”?
jsjddbbwj 7y ago
What exactly is the point of this article? It ended and I don't understand what this guy is trying to communicate
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19 points by zanter 7y ago

So what? What point is the author trying to make? Do we need a followup expose revealing what language the code was written in?

onyva 7y ago

Any non free software tool (or open source), USA on Chinese, would be a risk, no?

badrabbit 7y ago
No. Specifics matter.

rolandog 7y ago

An interesting thing to also note is that their public signing key has a typo on it ("Zoom Video Communcations", missing an 'i' in 'Communications'). It might be a benign mistake, but as an occasional tin-foil hat wearer, this raises some flags. I reported it a couple of months ago, but the initial support rep. didn't seem to know much about cryptography. I forgot to reply then, but seeing this article pushed me to remind them to look into it with an explanation and request for escalation.

badrabbit 7y ago
This means nothing for TLS,but a bit suspicious for code signing
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PunksATawnyFill 7y ago

This failed to mention the fact that Zoom was caught planting malware on people's computers last year. https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-app/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-a...

unlinked_dll 7y ago

Putting R&D in China is basically asking the question, "can I make more money before an employee expatriates my product?" Interesting thing about zoom though is that the technical side of it doesn't seem particularly complex so I guess their value is their enterprise customers and aversion to change. Also if someone at zoom can answer this for me: why do you require a desktop app to function? Can you please kill it if you're only going to legitimately support windows? Just use a webpage.

sloucher 7y ago
A desktop app is able to access much more of your local system than a web page, so... :-)
kyelewis 7y ago
I’ve never had an issue with their MacOS app, what do you mean by “only.. legitimately support windows”?

jsjddbbwj 7y ago

What exactly is the point of this article? It ended and I don't understand what this guy is trying to communicate

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