Why you shouldn’t use Zoom

During this pandemic the use of different video conference platforms has increased, one who has claimed that they grown a lot is Zoom, but much of their so claimed unique users are in reality just the number of users who has taken part in a video conference. Sure this ain’t bad from the user point of view, more from the investor part of view as they get a false number of how many users they have.

The problems with Zoom is that your connection may be routed trough PRC (China), this happens when the servers outside PRC reaches their maximum capacity. What’s bad about this you may wonder, the transaction is end to end encrypted. The end to end encryption ain’t true, the encryption is just between you and Zoom, not to the user you are talking with and the problem is that the encryption is AES-128 with ECB, this makes it a lot easier to figure out how to decrypt the stream even if you don’t have the keys as some part of the data may be in more or less plain text. Also the encryption keys can have been generated in China and with the deal Zoom has with the PRC, PRC will have access to keys to decrypt traffic that is routed trough PRC.

Zoom also may disable account that the Chinese government thinks are spreading contra-revolutionary-disinformation like that the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 where hundreds of people was brutally murdered by PRC PLA Soldiers.

Also Zoom development is nowadays done completely in China, with help of developers from PLA, which do make it questionable if anyone in their right mind should use Zoom at all.

We would recommend you switch to jitsi which is an open source project that allows you to run video conferences on a multitude of platforms and been classed to be top two video conference system (including closed source competitors).

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