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279 points arkadiyt | 5 comments | 22 Mar 20 22:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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therealmarv ◴[23 Mar 20 00:43 UTC] No.22660237[source]▶
I'm guessing this is related to the "Zoom monitors activity on your computer" story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657384
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1. arkadiyt ◴[23 Mar 20 00:59 UTC] No.22660321[source]▶
It's something I've wanted to write for a long time, and that tweet finally spurred me to do it. Hadn't seen the HN thread though!
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2. vasili111 ◴[23 Mar 20 01:15 UTC] No.22660395[source]▶
So web-based Zoom cannot detect if Zoom window is not active?
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3. arkadiyt ◴[23 Mar 20 01:21 UTC] No.22660418[source]▶
It can still do that, but it can't get what programs you have running or the other data collected by the desktop client.

Beyond the privacy concerns it's a security risk. Their desktop client had a remote code execution vulnerability last year:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-says-zoom-web-serve...

4. yoaviram ◴[23 Mar 20 07:31 UTC] No.22661921[source]▶
You should update the readme to include this context!
5. syrgian ◴[23 Mar 20 10:44 UTC] No.22662706[source]▶
Thanks a lot! I had been bypassing manually the zoom client, but lately I felt like they were hiding more and more the browser option (up to the point that sometimes I had to run Chrome to have two chances for the non-client link to appear).