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luminati ◴[27 Mar 20 22:35 UTC] No.22707528[source]▶

Honest question [not trying to act controversial], especially with all the US-China spat.

Zoom's engineering team is based in China - the product is primarily built out of there. [1]

What guarantee is there that the CCP is not intercepting/backdooring all video communications? Especially in current situations, where so much sensitive information is being discussed via Zoom?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...

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1. eternalny1 ◴[28 Mar 20 01:36 UTC] No.22708479[source]▶

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Of course the CCP can intercept those videos, Snowden's book talked about how the NSA is doing what they are doing specifically because China was doing it.

It's not specific to Zoom, they intercept at the global fiber lines, they can watch ANY video they want.

So yes, the CCP can watch your videos and so can the NSA.

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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act