Here’s when you can trust Zoom, and when you shouldn’t

Zoom has quickly surfaced into general awareness due to the stay-home policies from the global pandemic of COVID-19. It’s stock has increased by twenty-fold since December 2019, and currently has 200 million daily users. Technologists praise Zoom for its reliable internet service and self-explanatory functions, but it is not without its faults. Complaints have risen about numerous bugs, design flaws, and especially security and privacy violations. Zoom has responded to these allegations with apologies, updates and alterations. Still, new problems arise, such as unwanted intrusions known as “Zoombombing”, where people intentionally joining public meetings to send inappropriate images, among them are anti-Semitic and white supremacist images, profanity, and pornography. Zoom’s slow response to Zoombombing and it’s rapidly increasing number of users has fueled its expansion. However, Zoom is now combatting this by mandating the use of passwords and suggestion the addition of a number of options that help control the meetings. Still, the issue remains about whether Zoom can be fully trusted with user information and activity, since doubts have been raised about the security of their current encryption structure E2E.

To read the full article by Glenn Fleishman from Fast Company, click here.