On 2020-03-31, n...@dismail.de <n...@dismail.de> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 08:17:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> […] Recently I was looking at zoom.us - seems to be in >> hype now - can be installed in debian and can be used as video conferencing >> tool. > > Based on zoom's "privacy" policy and everything I've herad so far about it, > I would not recommend using zoom. Some examples: > - Just a week or so ago it was exposed that zoom was sharing data with > facebook > without informing the user about it or giving any choice on that. Alledgedly > they stopped it now [1] > - Zoom created Security-Holes with it's Mac-Client, that persisted even after > deinstalling zoom on OSX. [2] Personally I wouldn't trust their other > clients > either. > - Zoom can collect more data about you then you might think and share this > with > the meeting-creator. [3] >
I was just reading this little item about zoom from the G-men (actually, Kristen is a Boston G-woman, apparently): https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/boston/news/press-releases/fbi-warns-of-teleconferencing-and-online-classroom-hijacking-during-covid-19-pandemic