02 August 2021
Here s an updated list of the dozens of security and privacy problems that have been found in Zoom.
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Do you use Zoom? Of course you do. After the coronavirus pandemic hit North America and Europe in March 2020, seemingly everyone who had to start working, going to school or even socializing from home started using the videoconferencing service.
But boy, were there growing pains. Zoom went from 10 million daily users in December 2019 to 300 million daily users in April 2020. Its security and privacy practices came under sharp scrutiny and experts didn t like what they found.
It turned out that Zoom s end-to-end encryption wasn t quite end-to-end, that other Zoom meeting attendees could see a lot about you, and that pranksters and bored teenagers could Zoom bomb public meetings with shocking or rude content.
Zoom spy claims a warning for multinationals in China
19 Jan, 2021 04:26 AM
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Chinese security agents wanted access to Zoom s systems, in this case to gather evidence and disrupt meetings. Photo / 123RF
Chinese security agents wanted access to Zoom s systems, in this case to gather evidence and disrupt meetings. Photo / 123RF
Financial Times
OPINION: Tinker, tailor, soldier . . . Zoom spy? The late, great David Cornwell, aka John le Carré, did not pen a novel about the defining geopolitical rivalry of the 21st century, between the US and China. But if he had, he might have modelled one of his inimitable protagonists on Jin Xinjiang, aka Julien Jin, a former China-based executive for Zoom, the Californian videoconferencing company.
Zoom Executive Charged For Shutting Down Meetings For China
US prosecutors have charged a China-based Zoom executive for shutting down meetings on behalf of Chinese authorities.
Xinjiang Jin, also known as Julien Jin, is accused of fabricating reasons to take action against various accounts, especially those critical of or commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre, according to
The New York Times. Jin is accused of gaining access to meetings and then posting prohibited content, such as child pornography or terrorism-related items, in order to get the meetings flagged and shut down.
“Americans should understand that the Chinese government will not hesitate to exploit companies operating in China to further their international agenda, including repression of free speech,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray in a statement.
Zoom exec is a CCP spy and Zoom is too close to the CCP
A former Zoom executive was shutting down video conferences that were not flattering to China. According to the Department of Justice, he did it because he was a spy for the Chinese Communist Party.
We’re happy the DOJ is looking for CCP spies, but. this man is in China, and we have a number of criminals right here in the United States who tried to topple the Trump administration. It would be nice if Bill Barr stopped patting himself on the back and went after them.
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