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Nothing substantive has changed, and Zoom will still have the capability to intercept and eavesdrop on your calls. Unless companies using this have no IP to pro
by 0xy 7y ago
Nothing substantive has changed, and Zoom will still have the capability to intercept and eavesdrop on your calls. Unless companies using this have no IP to protect or operate exclusively in China, Zoom is an awful idea and a major risk.
We simply cannot talk about Zoom without mentioning China. The company has extremely deep ties to the country and China is known for large-scale theft of intellectual property and eavesdropping.
Even if Zoom executives wouldn't hand this information over to the CCP, what's to stop the CCP from pressuring a developer or planting one?
- enitihas 7y agoWhich video chat application doesn't have the ability to intercept calls? Something which works on desktop and not mobile only like Signal
- 0xy 7y agoIf you're referring to group calls, there aren't any applications that meet the criteria unless you self-host. 1-to-1 there are plenty of options, like Riot/Matrix. Even though plenty of Western governments have engaged in IP theft before, I'd trust most of them more than the CCP which engages in organized and systematic IP theft.
- paypalcust83 7y agoI have Signal desktop installed. Maybe you should research what you say before spreading false FUD around?
- taejo 7y agoSignal desktop is not a video-chat application (at least on macOS, it's asynchronous messaging only)
- xiphias2 7y agoDuo at least promises E2E encryption and handling high latency connections, although I haven't tried it yet. But I'd love to see a comparision of personal use case.
- piva00 7y agoI've been tinkering with self-hosting my own Jitsi[0] instance, it's one way to limit eavesdropping only to people with access to your own infrastructure. [0] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/README.md https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/README.m...
- kall 7y agoGroup FaceTime, though the apple hardware only restriction is a big one.
- paypalcust83 7y agoI really don't care if TikTok or Zoom are associated with a particular country actually or if people assume it for racist, ideological, or nationalist reasons. It's the celebrities, novelty-seekers, and other influencers who community spread half-baked apps of unknown provenance like the corona that are the problem.