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"[S]ince at least 2016, Zoom misled users by touting that it offered 'end-to-end, 256-bit encryption' to secure users' communications, when in fact it provided
by eddieoz 6y ago
"[S]ince at least 2016, Zoom misled users by touting that it offered 'end-to-end, 256-bit encryption' to secure users' communications, when in fact it provided a lower level of security," the FTC said today in the announcement of its complaint against Zoom and the tentative settlement. Despite promising end-to-end encryption, the FTC said that "Zoom maintained the cryptographic keys that could allow Zoom to access the content of its customers' meetings, and secured its Zoom Meetings, in part, with a lower level of encryption than promised."
That's the concept of E2Z2EE (End2Zoom2End Encryption)
- xiphias2 6y agoCustomers or users? There’s a huge difference between the 2, and this excerpt uses the 2 words like if those were interchangeable.
- joombaga 6y agoWhat's the difference? Aren't they the same group of people in this context?
- rsstack 6y agoFree users are not customers.
- xiphias2 6y agoI'm sorry, I'm not a native English speaker. According to the Oxford dictionary customers are people who buy a product or service. Zoom was thinking of giving only them E2E encryption, and actually I would pay for that service if I would trust Zoom. Currently I use telegram to speak with my friends, but the call drops quite often as we don't have stable internet connection.
- bigbubba 6y agoMaybe, since you admit your English language skills could use some work, you should give up on linguistic pedantry and find a new hobby.
- xiphias2 6y agoIf my English here is so bad why do I see ,,end user'' in Zoom's terms of license all the time, and customer for paying customers? Can you provide a better legal definition than what I see? (Only the legal meaning of the word matters in the current context). We're talking about hundreds of millions of people being effected vs few million people, it matters a lot. You would understand that it's very far from pedantry if you followed all announcements that Zoom had in the past.
- oarsinsync 6y agoI think a better distinction is 'paying customers' and 'non-paying customers'. Customers being a subset of users after all makes it a bit ambiguous. Not that it should matter in the context of the feature being described.
- xiphias2 6y agoI'm still not a native English speaker, but a Google search shows that non-paying customers are people who don't pay their bills, which is not the same thing as users who don't have bills to pay. Also as I wrote, Zoom was thinking of selling E2E encryption as a payed feature, that's why the distinction really matters (I would happily pay for it if that would give me a strong assurance that I just don't have so far).
- pc86 6y agoNon-paying customers can mean either customers who are delinquent in paying their bills, or customers that are using the service for free with permission.
- selimthegrim 6y agoNon-revenue customers for the latter (from airlines)
- bshipp 6y agoI don't think I'd happily pay for Zoom, regardless of their encryption promises. I've personally struggled more with zoom call quality issues and hardware conflicts than I have with any other video conference provider.
- olyjohn 6y agoAlso anecdotally, I hear the opposite from every single person I know. Zoom has been the video conferencing system that works the best. Have you ever used Go2Meeting, WebEx, Teams? Constant struggles with those applications for me, my friends, and my co-workers.