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All of the noise about Zoom sounds like a witch-hunt. But hopefully, Zoom can improve their security and privacy features, to make their product even better.

All of the noise about Zoom sounds like a witch-hunt. But hopefully, Zoom can improve their security and privacy features, to make their product even better. I think people forget just how terrible video conferencing was, before Zoom came around, and got installed in corporate meeting rooms worldwide. Let me remind you again: It was terrible! Zoom actually brought a breath of fresh air to the landscape. The video was relatively snappy, and the audio was usually always spot on. It made you feel almost as if you were living in Star Trek land, with ubiquitous video calls everywhere. And all the hubbub about Facebook, Google, and Microsoft offering free videoconferencing on their chat tools, just means that this wasn’t their core competency. They had other things to work on. Bigger fish to fry. Whereas Zoom, just focused on one thing, and one thing only, videoconferencing.

0xy 6y ago
Is a shiny polished product worth risking your companies valuable IP, given Zoom has lied about using end-to-end encryption and has routed American communications through China in the past? This is straight out of the CCP's playbook, and Zoom is far from being outside of the CCP's influence.
- blackrock 6y ago
  The CEO is an American citizen. He is probably more loyal and patriotic to the country than you are. And I’m sure he creates and provides more jobs to Americans than you do. If you have evidence that he is doing something illegal, then present it. Otherwise, you are just fear mongering. And realize that coordinating with a foreign government is a criminal offense. I highly doubt he is interested in such activity. Just so that he can snoop on your scrum meeting or fake agile process? That’s just nonsense. Zuck and Brin and Bezos and Gates, has more details about your personal life than you can imagine. And none of that data is encrypted. It’s all just sitting there on their servers just waiting to be harvested. When was the last time you complained about these companies? But hey, it’s a free country. If you don’t want to use it, then don’t use it. No one is forcing you. You can even demand a boycott if your own company uses the product. And to be honest, I don’t even use it outside of business. Treat it as a public medium, where all communications may be monitored. I’m more concerned about my employer monitoring me, than I am about some foreign boogeyman on the other side of the planet, listening to my boring scrum meetings.
  - theshadowknows 6y ago
    Funny how Zoom was suddenly under investigation when their stock price shot up

0xy 6y ago

Is a shiny polished product worth risking your companies valuable IP, given Zoom has lied about using end-to-end encryption and has routed American communications through China in the past? This is straight out of the CCP's playbook, and Zoom is far from being outside of the CCP's influence.

blackrock 6y ago
The CEO is an American citizen. He is probably more loyal and patriotic to the country than you are. And I’m sure he creates and provides more jobs to Americans than you do. If you have evidence that he is doing something illegal, then present it. Otherwise, you are just fear mongering. And realize that coordinating with a foreign government is a criminal offense. I highly doubt he is interested in such activity. Just so that he can snoop on your scrum meeting or fake agile process? That’s just nonsense. Zuck and Brin and Bezos and Gates, has more details about your personal life than you can imagine. And none of that data is encrypted. It’s all just sitting there on their servers just waiting to be harvested. When was the last time you complained about these companies? But hey, it’s a free country. If you don’t want to use it, then don’t use it. No one is forcing you. You can even demand a boycott if your own company uses the product. And to be honest, I don’t even use it outside of business. Treat it as a public medium, where all communications may be monitored. I’m more concerned about my employer monitoring me, than I am about some foreign boogeyman on the other side of the planet, listening to my boring scrum meetings.
- theshadowknows 6y ago
  Funny how Zoom was suddenly under investigation when their stock price shot up