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How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’

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796 points _Microft | 3 comments | 31 Mar 20 11:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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tambourine_man ◴[31 Mar 20 17:08 UTC] No.22739735[source]▶
Zoom's got a tradition of being, let's put it like this, way too clever for everyone's own good.

See previous “lets install a server on this Mac that is not removed when you uninstall the app and leaves your camera open to the entire internet” for more examples.

I use it on a VM, I suggest you do it too.

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1. saagarjha ◴[31 Mar 20 20:57 UTC] No.22742487[source]▶
It's very Dropbox-esque…
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2. hr2016 ◴[31 Mar 20 23:10 UTC] No.22743765[source]▶
As a Dropbox user, care to elaborate please?
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3. saagarjha ◴[31 Mar 20 23:14 UTC] No.22743800[source]▶
https://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropb..., and the associated Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338