On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:10 PM Alec Ten Harmsel
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>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 08:04, Michael wrote:
> > I have not used Zoom, but the interwebs are screaming about the fly-by 
> > malware
> > silent installations that come with it.  I don't know if this applies to 
> > Linux
> > too.
>
> My understanding is that it reports running processes and other info about 
> your machine back to Zoom. Don't know why. As soon as I'm done with a 
> meeting, I stop it so it's not running all the time.
>
Wow. It doesn't get much more spooky that that. The reason I was
checking zoom is that it is what people @work are using. But they're
not a security-conscious bunch at all, at all.

Jorge

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