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We're in a pandemic. Telecommunications are of paramount importance to people working in emergency and others services throughout the world. So of course, secur
by peterwwillis 7y ago
We're in a pandemic. Telecommunications are of paramount importance to people working in emergency and others services throughout the world. So of course, security and privacy are more paramount than ever. But by releasing more and more "problems" with Zoom, it slowly forces organizations to abandon Zoom as a telecommunications option. Eventually people will not be allowed to use Zoom to do their jobs, which will make those jobs even more difficult than they already are. Social distancing by itself saves lives by keeping infection (and thus death) rates down, and this software is a critical part of making that work.
> Because Wardle dropped detail of the vulnerabilities on his blog, Zoom
> has not yet provided a fix. In the meanwhile, Wardle said,
> “if you care about your security and privacy, perhaps stop using Zoom.”
This is not the time to release 0-days in telecommunications software, people need this software to save lives.
If you work in InfoSec, or just idle in random hacker channels, please push back on this kind of behavior. It would be "irresponsible" at any other time, but in this era, it's literally life-threatening.
- saagarjha 7y agoIf I was a hacker, I would be looking real closely at Zoom since everyone is using it right now.