On 8/10/20 10:23 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I don't have any kids, but my school district and other governments who claim > jurisdiction over me also require it. > > Since Zoom had said before that it was secure and it turned out that it > wasn't, it certainly doesn't make since to trust them now. The way we do it > in the open source community is to have lots of eyeballs looking over the > code so we can verify it ourselves. So, where can I get copies of the sources > for Zoom's app and server? > > Also, although the CEO of Zoom has become a U.S. citizen and they are > headquartered in the U.S., Zoom is essentially a Chinese-owned company. They > do whatever the Chinese government tells them to do including shutting down > the accounts of U.S. and Chinese human rights activists.
Yeah.... Though the `developed in China' aspect isn't necessarily a `red flag' by itself (there are good people everywhere, and there have been some really great projects that came out of China specifically--OpenMoko and Qi Hardware come to mind for me--and IIRC I heard somewhere that Ubuntu/Canonical got a lot of funding from China; and there's probably a lot of good things that I'm forgetting)..., when taken together with the other symptoms _and_ the general patterns of `privacy tonedeafness' and `what could they possibly hav been thinking when they decided doing that was a good idea', it doesn't really help to shift the scales back in their favor.... > There are at least a dozen alternatives: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_telecommunication_services_and_product_brands#Browser_based_-_does_not_require_software_downloads > > https://techwiser.com/open-source-zoom-alternative/ Well..., the NH State Board of Education signed a deal a couple weeks ago to provide BigBlueButton and a bunch of other hosted open-source services to every school in the state for grades K-12 (the NH universities had already standardized on the same things a while ago...): https://www.ilearnnh.org/sites/default/files/media/2020-07/doe-press-release-july-28-2020.pdf So hopefully the schools will at least start taking up what the state is offering instead of going it alone (even if the security- and privacy- [which I guess I have to remind people are *not* the same thing...] arguments fall on deaf ears, there's a pretty obvious *economic* "why are you using your funding for this instead of spending everything you can on our kids and teachers" argument.... (and if schools are using Zoom but *not* paying for a contract to ensure [supposed] FERPA compliance..., ummm...) -- Connect with me on the GNU social network: <https://status.hackerposse.com/rozzin> Not on the network? Ask me for an invitation to a social hub! _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
