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It not only examines all processes and arguments - it leverages the microphone to act on ultrasonic cues for "integrations". Zoom is a privacy dumpster fire. h
by xfitm3 5y ago
It not only examines all processes and arguments - it leverages the microphone to act on ultrasonic cues for "integrations". Zoom is a privacy dumpster fire.
https://devforum.zoom.us/t/ultrasonic-connection/3318 https://devforum.zoom.us/t/ultrasonic-connection/3318
- acatton 5y agoIt also plays your user-name (when configured by the meeting owner) in the background at a non-audible frequency, so that companies can find out who leaked their meetings by analysing the audio from the leak. https://theintercept.com/2021/01/18/leak-zoom-meeting/ https://theintercept.com/2021/01/18/leak-zoom-meeting/
- IG_Semmelweiss 5y agoI thought this thread was full of sarcasm and then I see the links. I should have known better. I am glad this is getting posted because we need reminders of the reality we live in
- dathinab 5y agoYes there are reasons besides conflicts with US law and they not having German Servers which makes it completely GDPR in-compliant and de-facto legal unusable in the EU. (Not that anyone seem to care.)
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- kamray23 5y agoWell that's easy enough to defeat if oyu know of it.
- agumonkey 5y agoThanks a lot, its now fully trollable.
- xenonite 5y agoUltrasonic sound transmission is what Cisco WebEx also claims to do. So it not something unheard of (although it is not hearable).
- est 5y agoAny application allows remote screen recording is basically a trojan horse.
- neurostimulant 5y agoBy that definition all major browsers are trojan too because they can capture screens and windows via screen capture api.
- est 5y agoTherefore I always manually modify browser binary and rename screen capture api to something else. I also disable WebRTC. It's a shame Google's Blink don't offer an option to turn off features.
- wonnage 5y agoCalm your tinfoil hat, this is a common feature in meeting software, has been around forever in Webex https://help.webex.com/en-us/WBX000028256/Troubleshooting-Webex-Proximity-Pairing-Problems https://help.webex.com/en-us/WBX000028256/Troubleshooting-We...
- aero-glide2 5y agoIts okay to do this as long as webex/zoom explicitly mentions it when you join a meeting.