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

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796 points _Microft | 1 comments | 31 Mar 20 11:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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elevenoh ◴[31 Mar 20 21:05 UTC] No.22742581[source]▶
Best zoom alternative?
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luto ◴[31 Mar 20 21:11 UTC] No.22742631[source]▶
Jitsi, Google Meet, bigbluebutton -- anything can runs in a browser tab and is more or less confined within it.
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adtac ◴[01 Apr 20 04:38 UTC] No.22745738[source]▶
I wouldn't be surprised if Zoom suddenly started exploiting browser zero days to force install things "for your own good"
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1. saagarjha ◴[01 Apr 20 05:55 UTC] No.22746112{3}[source]▶
Good thing that this is somewhat difficult to do ;)