> I want to close by saying that many people are doing the best they can during a very hard time. This includes Zoom’s engineers, who are dealing with an unpre

> I want to close by saying that many people are doing the best they can during a very hard time. This includes Zoom’s engineers, who are dealing with an unprecedented surge of users, and somehow managing to keep their service from falling over. They deserve a lot of credit for this. It seems almost unfair to criticize the company over some hypothetical security concerns right now. I'll have all the sympathy for Zoom's employees who are probably having mandatory overtime in order to keep things running smoothly and to patch things up in response to all the (very legitimate) concerns being brought up, but at the end of the day, Zoom is a for-profit company, not a charity. A for-profit company with links to China [0] that's in a very unusual situation right now and potentially coming in contact with a lot of sensitive information as a great deal of people have come to rely on them. I don't think they deserve to be cut any slack and honestly, the more people find and use other alternatives, preferably open source ones (Jitsi Meet [1], BigBlueButton [2], Jami [3], among others) the better. [0] https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/ https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto... [1] https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/ [2] https://bigbluebutton.org/ https://bigbluebutton.org/ [3] https://jami.net/ https://jami.net/