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279 points arkadiyt | 2 comments | 22 Mar 20 22:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jbverschoor ◴[23 Mar 20 03:33 UTC] No.22661023[source]▶
Never zoom for me ever again with their malware.

I refuse to use or install their product.

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holri ◴[23 Mar 20 07:00 UTC] No.22661815[source]▶
Why is it malware?
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1. Nullabillity ◴[23 Mar 20 07:52 UTC] No.22661991[source]▶
RCE vulnerabilities, joins rooms without consent, tries very hard to persist beyond uninstalls. And their security attitude mirrors SCdF's: Your company forces you to use us, fuck you.
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2. DyslexicAtheist ◴[23 Mar 20 08:41 UTC] No.22662167[source]▶
let me expand (copy pasta from my comment on sibling post[0]):

this isn't the first time zoom got caught red-handed[1]. Last year they were called out for installing a local web server in order to disable security controls to get around the deprecated NPAPI[2] ... this is _literally_ what malware does. Seriously fuck zoom!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22658173

[1] https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI