El Reg articles are often second hand and blown out of proportion, like
this one.

Zoom has some very specific issues (some on Windows, some on the Mac)
and the, admittedly, poor encryption, which for casual use, however, are
all irrelevant.

While not good enough for classified communication, it is probably good
enough for confidential ones (medical, legal and the like), provided all
participants understand the limitations.

It most certainly is good enough for teaching, webinars, virtual parties
and the like. Especially if the content (recordings, notes, and chats)
are made public anyway.

And, so much better than a lot of others.  In particular does it work
really well on iPhone/iPad with the standard in-ear plug-in phones, and
I understand same for Android.

el

On 2020-04-04 16:16 , Martin Gregorie wrote:
[...]

> Latest reports say that Zoom is about as secure as a wet paper bag,
> and that they're removing its WebClient module because (lack of)
> security and replacing it with software thats downloaded and installed
> on your box using a known dodgy pre-installation script, so I'd say
> its anybody's guess whether this stuff will run on ARM chips and/or
> under Linux.
>
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/03/dont_use_zoom_if_privacy/
>
>


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