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> This is not the case, and the Zoom situation is a clear counterexample. I was talking about MALWARE. As I said before, Zoom is not malware, so no, it's not a

• zepto 6y ago
  Accusations of bad faith are unhelpful, especially in a technical discussion like this. Zoom is not malware in that as far as we know it isn’t Zoom’s intent to cause harm. However in this instance it exhibited a behavior which many forms of malware exhibit - opening an insecure or exploitable port. It was shut down because it was behaving the way some malware behaves. It’s a perfectly reasonable example of using these types of mechanism to mitigate a real security issue. You can’t seriously be claiming that malware never opens ports, or that malware always does all of its harm on the first run. Therefore the use of the distinction ‘malware’ is arbitrary and irrelevant. The mechanism is useful to protect against vulnerabilities, regardless of whether the vulnerabilities were intentional or not.