On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 2:03 PM Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/17/end-to-end-encryption-update/ > I'm remembering the Hushmail fiasco, where federal agents actually forced the provider of E2EE email to add a backdoor to their client side code that extracted and preserved the private key of the users. Pair that with big organizations like IBM denying facial recognition to law enforcement due to the current ongoing violent controversy over misuse of authority. Zoom has been a very large video chat system during the coronavirus pandemic. They must have a lot of disparate pressures. It's nice of them to show us how difficult it is to offer real security as a for-profit corporation. They may not have heard of the Hushmail history. I imagine that kind of thing could be done with a system compromise, too, which is hard for anyone to prevent for everyone. I wonder if there is a way to defend against situations like Hushmail happening a little, or to get people to believe more that open reviewable source is profitable.
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