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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Zoom security and privacy issues

As we and seemingly everyone else in the world have been signing onto Zoom, people have been discovering that Zoom has quite a few security and privacy issues.  Here are a few articles that people have sent me about them:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-alert-zoom-client-can-leak-your-network-login-credentials/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e95m/zoom-leaking-email-addresses-photos

https://protonmail.com/blog/zoom-privacy-issues/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account

Please consider these issues, and others that have or will no doubt come to light, and decide whether you want to continue to use the Zoom app.  So far, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for us, so we will continue with the virtual folk dance sessions using Zoom.  Even if you don't want to use the Zoom app, you can still call in on the voice phone number for audio only.

User beware...

UPDATE: Marketplace Tech has a segment about Zoom today (Apr 2, 2020):

Lastly, just for fun:

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