https://thenextweb.com/apps/2020/05/21/a-look-at-how-jitsi-became-a-secure-open-source-alternative-to-zoom/
By Ivan Mehta
TheNextWeb.com
May 21, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic pushed people to stay in their homes, and in turn,
forced them to use video conferencing products. In the past couple of months,
Zoom became an almost indispensable app, Facebook had to step up and make a
rival product, and Google made its enterprise conferencing product free for
everyone.
Amid this video conferencing boom, Zoom’s security and privacy-related problems
made a lot of people skeptical about using its products. Plus, the company
wasn’t transparent about communicating its mishaps — this forced a lot of
people to look for free open source products, and Jitsi emerged as a perfect
solution for them.
Apart from being open-sourced, Jitsi benefited from endorsements by a few
highly-regarded names in the security community. In March, a privacy-focused
browser Tor tweeted about the product as an alternative to Zoom.
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