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bengale 6y ago
There does seem to be quite the media campaign against zoom. Interestingly its highlighting that strange divide between those of us that follow 'tech news' and those that don't. I've seen a few of the tech types try and get people to switch away from zoom with very little success over the last few weeks, no-one outside of this sphere seems to give even the slightest damn about what's being briefed to the tech media.
- tibbydudeza 6y ago
  I concur ... the spate of story plants about their encryption implementation issues and the one incident of them misrouting calls through a datacenter in China. Some three letter agency is involved.
  - DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
    not to forget there is also the case of installing a local webserver to bypass the deprecated NPAPI api (deprecated bc of security issues!), ... never mind that they have historically done one thing and pushed the opposite point in their PR, ... people will rather trust a vendor like Zoom and bend over backwards to make excuses (even it means getting rat-f*ed) than admitting Zoom's past behavior doesn't justify that trust. here is ThoughtWorks' "Head of Tech" saying "we've done the threat modeling and trust us it will be fine for you too". https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6660369880577036288/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6660369... it's not how threat models work but nevermind, the post still has 80+ likes of people who call themselves engineers ...
  - lostlogin 6y ago
    When you have the likes of the British Prime Minister screwing it up publicly, you don’t need any three letter agency. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/boris-johnson-zoom-meeting-id/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/boris-johnson-zoom-meeting-id...
    - enitihas 6y ago
      On the contrary, you have the British Prime Minister using it because it is too easy to use. I doubt it would have been the preference of British Intelligence that the PM use Zoom.

There does seem to be quite the media campaign against zoom. Interestingly its highlighting that strange divide between those of us that follow 'tech news' and those that don't. I've seen a few of the tech types try and get people to switch away from zoom with very little success over the last few weeks, no-one outside of this sphere seems to give even the slightest damn about what's being briefed to the tech media.

tibbydudeza 6y ago
I concur ... the spate of story plants about their encryption implementation issues and the one incident of them misrouting calls through a datacenter in China. Some three letter agency is involved.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
  not to forget there is also the case of installing a local webserver to bypass the deprecated NPAPI api (deprecated bc of security issues!), ... never mind that they have historically done one thing and pushed the opposite point in their PR, ... people will rather trust a vendor like Zoom and bend over backwards to make excuses (even it means getting rat-f*ed) than admitting Zoom's past behavior doesn't justify that trust. here is ThoughtWorks' "Head of Tech" saying "we've done the threat modeling and trust us it will be fine for you too". https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6660369880577036288/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6660369... it's not how threat models work but nevermind, the post still has 80+ likes of people who call themselves engineers ...
- lostlogin 6y ago
  When you have the likes of the British Prime Minister screwing it up publicly, you don’t need any three letter agency. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/boris-johnson-zoom-meeting-id/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/boris-johnson-zoom-meeting-id...
  - enitihas 6y ago
    On the contrary, you have the British Prime Minister using it because it is too easy to use. I doubt it would have been the preference of British Intelligence that the PM use Zoom.