The zoom panic has begun. This is the program; everybody’s using it. It was really designed for business and we’ve used it in my business for some time even though I have never been a fan, I’m a fan of how it works. It works really well and that’s why people use it.

It’s easy to understand. It just works. But, even last year there were issues with zoom. The way zoom installed for instance on a Macintosh, they put a well did. A number of things that were not for Passover but the worst thing was after you uninstalled zoom, it kept a little webserver running on your macintosh at all times which bad guys could then use to attack your system.

When it was discovered, zoom didn’t respond very quickly. Apple actually had to push out a fix that removed the zoom web server. I’m sure Apple was not happy about that. But, Apple users you could feel good apples sticking up for you.

Zoom was a business product; they were focused on making it easy for relatively unsophisticated users. A lot of companies you zoom for conference calls with potential clients for pitches right? You don’t want to make a potential client have to jump through hoops.

For instance, made it so that you just even if you uninstalled zoom, if you just click to zoom link, you start, you create a meeting and it sends out an invitation, puts it in the calendar, you could just click the link in the calendar and boom you’re in the conference. If you’re doing these sales calls, even if you didn’t have the software installed, it would install it behind the scenes and open up so zoom, I think errored on the side of making this convenient not considering the security consequences.

Then, lately there’s been issues like the zoom iOS app using a Facebook kit of tools was even if you weren’t a Facebook user telling Facebook all about you. It’s not so good; most recently zoom was routing calls through China. They say it’s an accident zoom.

Their privacy issues- there’s a free tier of zoom you can do; 40-minute calls for free and those you know they were looking at what you were doing and mining it for advertising information. All of these things you know negative back now but people still use it.

Zoom bombing- this is where you know you know there’s a whole discord channel; this court is another product that the Youngs like to use. It’s a chat product, does video calls, it’s kind of like zoom for nerds. You can zoom bomb- they think it’s the funniest thing ever and if you think back to when you were in high school what they’re doing is awful.

Zoom does have settings- it’s just the default settings because it’s for business are wide open. You can go into the settings and say hey don’t let anybody joining unless by invitation. The problem is you need to make, you want to make that public, you don’t want to make them hard to enter, you don’t want to have to put up a password. I don’t know if there’s a fix for that.

Another thing zoom does badly and wrong is they say we are end-to-end encrypted private. But, it’s the nature of the beast, they can’t really be private; it can be encrypted as it’s traveling over the internet. But, zooms servers have to be able to see the conversations in order to mix them and do all you know- highlight the speaker and all that.

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