Re: Zoom

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

D MacDougall wrote: 
> From only the Wikipedia report and no further reading it's not clear to me
> whether using a web browser to attend a zoom meeting would be any safer than
> using the native application and I'm not doing international diplomatic
> negotiations anyway.  All I can say is that it's been working flawlessly for
> me for 4 or 5 years and has been improving quite a bit as time goes by.  If
> your need is to attend Zoom meetings, you can't just use Jitsi instead.  And
> I have always wondered, if Jitsi or any other app were used as much by as
> many people as Zoom has been, how many security flaws would be found in
> them.  The Wikipedia article on Jitsi says that due to it's hosting on AWS
> Jitsi is not GDPR compliant.  Do you or anyone have alternative that can be
> said with confidence to be better?


Yes; I host jitsi myself on Debian servers. Works nicely.
Getting the config right probably took an hour or two.

-dsr-