I'm still not sure what to think of the whole debacle.<p>Zoom could be a victim of the internet mob justice, where every inevitable misstep is blown out of proportion. Perhaps the mob is helped along by some competing interests. Or Zoom could be yet another tech company with dubious ethics (like U: or F). I doubt they are outright a PLA branch, that would be far too obvious.<p>This isn't just idle musings - I love how Zoom allows me to share screen/whiteboard, and see people's faces at the same time. It works really well for remote dev collaboration, in some ways better than physical presence. And yet the question of safety remains.<p>Should I go and research WebEx?
So were they really sending data to servers in China? From what little I've heard and read about this, that is what stood out to me. Not sure they should ever be trusted again after that.
Zoom's web SDK and web client were down for nearly four days over the weekend with minimal communication, and when they brought it all back they killed a key functionality the education market needs which is the ability to join a meeting without an account: <a href="https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-progress-web-sdk-web-client-from-browser-403-forbidden/10782/35" rel="nofollow">https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-progress-web-sdk-web-client-fr...</a>
and this is why product over security always wins.<p>there's mob mentality right now, but zoom got a TON of customers, and now is gonna have proof of end-to-end encryption in a couple of months.<p>boom.<p>zoom wins.<p>honestly just don't talk on zoom about something highly secretive such as ... idk... something a government is interested in as that isn't currently secure, other than that, don't sweat it.
They’re in the same bed as China. I don’t trust them for anything now, this to me is just a PR management exercise. They’re still going to give away your data
Zoom won the proverbial lottery with this pandemic and lost their ticket through greed/laziness. Great companies are always prepared when their big break comes. Zoom is not a great company.
I can't quite figure out what's going on with this thread. It seems to have an eerie amount of posts about support for Zoom, perhaps by paid trolls ("wumaos")?
I can only assume CISO is Chief Information Security Officer? I hadn't seen the acronym before. Bad Zoom for not writing it out in full on the first instance.