[technology taskforce] The Intercept : Zoom Meetings Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

Apparently Boris Johnson didn’t get that memo, hosting a “digital cabinet”
meeting with zoom id  :
https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1244985949534199808?s=21

Dev Anand

On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 6:20 PM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
wrote:

> It is worth noting that last week the UK Govt. has issued a note to its
> departments not to use Zoom because of these security issues - as often
> Government business is confidential. Companies are also advised that
> confidential business should not take place on Zoom. The problem is of all
> the remote participation software out there, Zoom's got the best
> usability/price ratio. Or is there something that's better than Zoom?
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> ps. I guess that ICANN work being, for the most, completely open, it
> doesn't matter if Zoom is not encrypted for our community's use of this
> resource
>
> On 31/03/2020 20:28, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
>
> Zoom, the video conferencing service whose use has spiked amid the
> Covid-19 pandemic, claims to implement end-to-end encryption, widely
> understood as the most private form of internet communication, protecting
> conversations from all outside parties. In fact, Zoom is using its own
> definition of the term, one that lets Zoom itself access unencrypted video
> and audio from meetings.
>
>
> https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/
>
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