> 'Encryption', while it would make it harder to snoop on your calls from third parties, will not 'protect' you from lawful intercept. Yes it will, it will mak

> 'Encryption', while it would make it harder to snoop on your calls from third parties, will not 'protect' you from lawful intercept. Yes it will, it will make the intercept so expensive that it will not make sense anymore for them to do it. In the first case, all they need to do to intercept is to call Zoom headquarters, or even just go to some pre-setup website and just enter the identity of the user and voíla you have the data. The cost is 1 man-hour of an agent. In the second case, the Zoom doesn't have technical ability to break the encryption, and to "lawfully intercept" they need to either break your phone or physically break into your home to install some devices, or construct elaborate servers to trick your phone into thinking it talks to real Zoom, or use the supercomputers to break some of the encryption, or use some of their hidden stashed 0-day, and thus risk exposing it by using it, and not be able to use it later for a real threat. Cost of this can be astronomical for breaking a single user. (And all of that is even more true for open-source solutions.) Also a lot of people disdain this not because they are terrorists. They disdain this type of surveillance because it has been shown many times that governments do not just track terrorists, they always end up abusing their power and track everyone, and there are agents who sometimes just make fun of people and read their emails etc. Didn't you read any of the Snowden material that was published? Encryption prevents exactly this type of ABUSE of the power by the government.