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279 points arkadiyt | 2 comments | 22 Mar 20 22:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source

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I'm guessing this is related to the "Zoom monitors activity on your computer" story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657384

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!

1. 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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2. 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:

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