Zoom Client

[Peter Flynn]

On 27/03/2020 21:06, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 20:40 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> Bear in mind that [Zoom] is also a major security problem.
> 
> How?

I have seen reports that (in a conference call) each user's list of 
windows, and the window location of their cursor, is accessible by the 
person who initiated the call. I believe this is because the software 
was (and is) used in teaching situations where the teacher needs to be 
able to check that each student is following the instructions, but 
outside a classroom this is probably not data you want other people to see.

https://securityboulevard.com/2020/03/using-zoom-here-are-the-privacy-issues-you-need-to-be-aware-of/

I don't track these, so perhaps it has been fixed. There were earlier 
concerns over the call ID and conference password mechanisms, but these 
have been fixed. But as commercial software, the source code is not 
available for checking, so there is no information about where else your 
data gets sent to.

If you require software which can be inspected and verified for these 
things, use Discord or similar.

P