I recall reading a while back some unsavory things about Zoom, and I don't care to use it. It seems that every-freaking-body is using it now, though. This is all from a year ago or so, but it seems to have fallen off the radar.
First, from the USG ~
China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre Defendant Coordinated with the People’s Republic of China to Target Dissidents and Disrupt Meetings
Yet our own government uses Zoom for congressional meetings and whatever else.
Next, we have a lovely piece about the people working there ~
EXCLUSIVE: Zoom Employs Chinese Communist Party, Huawei Techies
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/zoom-ccp-empolyees/
Eleven months ago ~
BREAKING: DOJ Outs Zoom Executive As CCP Member — Was Caught Leaking User Data To China
A thread by @TruthAbtChina2 ~
https://threader.app/thread/1361528064899964934
And a Twitter status ~
I know people who used it because it had a free version and the full version was cheap. As to why schools and government was using it instead of Teams or Skype that puzzled me but a China connection does make some sense.
Skype has started to collapse when Microsoft bought it (same happens to almost all softythey buy).
It works worse and worse on Windows.
On Android it drains the batter to the level that it hits up and almost explodes.
Old iPhone with Facetime works way better that modern, powerful Android phone with Skype.
Skype is dead. They don't known it yet.
Google Hangouts, Zoom, Facetime - all work way better. Skype is becoming 3rd league.
I know Google, Apple are deep state, but Microsoft isn't any better.
I had never used Zoom until last yr when I was doing online coding classes. Not too terribly fond of it and honestly don't get the appeal. We use Teams at my current work and after being at this place for just a few months, I much prefer it to Zoom.
Not long after the scamdemic took off and loads of schools went online, there was a couple of articles (I read) about how Zoom classes with pupils in them were being uploaded online. Memory holed now no doubt.
Hospital systems and doctors use it, too.
The version of Zoom used by the USG is open source to the gov (supposedly) and hosted on gov servers.
I would love to know that's true. Is there any way to show it?
Search “zoom gov”.
Thanks. I'm not filled with confidence that a Zoom isn't a Zoom through and through, though, even with the protocols reportedly in place by "the gov."
Who in there are we trusting, anyway?
Even if the USG uses a "safe and private" version, the entire rest of the country is using the one subject to all the CCP influence and spying.
It's good to know there might be privacy in government dealings.
I wouldn’t trust it. Considering the breaches in INFOSEC the USG has had over the last 10 yrs, I’d say very little is secure. Isolated networks like SIPR, NIPR, JWICS, NSANet etc are secure but anything cloud based or public facing I assume is comp’d.