JP Vossen via plug on 1 Apr 2020 11:36:23 -0700


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Just hit: https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/04/01/1654215/ex-nsa-hacker-drops-new-zero-day-doom-for-zoom

On 4/1/20 1:44 PM, Eric Lucas via plug wrote:
Thank you Rich... Good information!
Eric

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:48 PM Rich Kulawiec via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org <mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org>> wrote:

    On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 06:16:15PM -0400, Drew DeVault via plug wrote:
     > Quick reminder to the list that Zoom is proprietary spyware [...]

    It's even worse than that.  Read:

             Zoom Meetings Do Not Support End-to-End Encryption
    https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/

             Zoom shares your information with Facebook, lawsuit says /
    Boing Boing
    https://boingboing.net/2020/03/31/zoom-shares-your-information-w.html

             Zoom Teleconferencing Service &amp; Privacy - Consumer Reports
    https://www.consumerreports.org/video-conferencing-services/zoom-teleconferencing-privacy-concerns/

             Doc Searls Weblog · Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
    https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/

             Doc Searls Weblog · More on Zoom and privacy
    https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/28/more-zoom/

    Also, Zoom is being sued at the moment -- see BoingBoing link above.
    They have apparently 404'd their privacy white paper from their web
    site.
    The lawsuit:

             Taylor v Zoom Class Action - Google Drive
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1utrCNVLLNRcwIHrpTmFr88lt3F2vkYQ9/view

    ---rsk
Later,
JP
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