Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 08:56:18 -0000 (UTC)
Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> 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
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.
Celejar
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