On 2020-04-02, Celejar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > To be fair, at least this particular piece is not really about Zoom > security or privacy failings, but about users failing to take advantage > of the provided privacy and access controls.
To be exhaustive (and what are we here if not exhaustive), the piece does address at least one of Zoom's default settings, which they've recently changed because indeed it wasn't too sane and so might be considered a security or privacy "failing" of sorts (screen sharing settings now default to "Host Only" for *Education accounts*). https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360041591671-March-2020-Update-to-sharing-settings-for-Education-accounts > Celejar > > -- "When we encounter computer output that looks like what we produce by thinking, we are liable to credit the computer with thought... By that rule of inference, there would have to be an orchestra somewhere inside your CD player and a farm in your refrigerator." --David Halpern
