Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom
On 2020-03-31, nito@dismail.de <nito@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
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