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Hi, author here. > Why is the author so fake-surprised that the source code isn't available on the internet? Zoom isn't open source software, and has never cla

Hi, author here. > Why is the author so fake-surprised that the source code isn't available on the internet? Zoom isn't open source software, and has never claimed to be. I don't use Zoom and wasn't familiar with the company before I looked at their whitepaper. It's not fake-surprised at all. > The title is also pure clickbait, since the article itself comes to the conclusion that the design is secure and the oddities are likely due to the need for legacy support. ...Yes, but they're still oddities, right? I wouldn't call a title clickbait when it's completely accurate. If I found security issues, I would've titled it "Vulnerabilities in Zoom's End-to-End Encryption White Paper", if I even blogged about it at all.

kyawzazaw 6y ago
> wasn't familiar with the company I think you are in quite a rare position if you have not heard of Zoom but visit sites like this in 2020. I am just curious with this following question. Do you usually not perform a search query before you read a paper?
- some_furry 6y ago
  > I think you are in quite a rare position if you have not heard of Zoom but visit sites like this in 2020. I've heard of Zoom. But that doesn't mean I know their entire business strategy especially when it comes to open/closed source software. I've also never had any reason to try it: I don't have any kids (so no school, etc.) and I lived most of my life too poor to afford health insurance, and I'm afraid to leave my house during the pandemic, so I still don't have a family doctor or anything of the sort to talk with. I work from home and use Slack for everything work-related (but Telegram elsewhere because that's where the furries all hang out for reasons I find wholly unsatisfying). > Do you usually not perform a search query before you read a paper? I'm curious: What precisely do you mean by "a search query"? My search queries are usually of the form: site:github.com zoom encryption So if I was supposed to find something more enlightening on the subject, my search habits probably weren't conducive to discovering it.
  - kyawzazaw 6y ago
    I mean go to www.google.com Type in "Zoom video communications"

kyawzazaw 6y ago

> wasn't familiar with the company I think you are in quite a rare position if you have not heard of Zoom but visit sites like this in 2020. I am just curious with this following question. Do you usually not perform a search query before you read a paper?

some_furry 6y ago
> I think you are in quite a rare position if you have not heard of Zoom but visit sites like this in 2020. I've heard of Zoom. But that doesn't mean I know their entire business strategy especially when it comes to open/closed source software. I've also never had any reason to try it: I don't have any kids (so no school, etc.) and I lived most of my life too poor to afford health insurance, and I'm afraid to leave my house during the pandemic, so I still don't have a family doctor or anything of the sort to talk with. I work from home and use Slack for everything work-related (but Telegram elsewhere because that's where the furries all hang out for reasons I find wholly unsatisfying). > Do you usually not perform a search query before you read a paper? I'm curious: What precisely do you mean by "a search query"? My search queries are usually of the form: site:github.com zoom encryption So if I was supposed to find something more enlightening on the subject, my search habits probably weren't conducive to discovering it.
- kyawzazaw 6y ago
  I mean go to www.google.com Type in "Zoom video communications"