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It's something I've wanted to write for a long time, and that tweet finally spurred me to do it. Hadn't seen the HN thread though!
by arkadiyt 7y ago
It's something I've wanted to write for a long time, and that tweet finally spurred me to do it. Hadn't seen the HN thread though!
- vasili111 7y agoSo web-based Zoom cannot detect if Zoom window is not active?
- arkadiyt 7y agoIt can still do that, but it can't get what programs you have running or the other data collected by the desktop client. Beyond the privacy concerns it's a security risk. Their desktop client had a remote code execution vulnerability last year: https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-says-zoom-web-server-is-vulnerable-to-remote-code-execution/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-says-zoom-web-serve...
- yoaviram 7y agoYou should update the readme to include this context!
- syrgian 7y agoThanks a lot! I had been bypassing manually the zoom client, but lately I felt like they were hiding more and more the browser option (up to the point that sometimes I had to run Chrome to have two chances for the non-client link to appear).