A bug so nice they patched it twice

from here and here

If you have Zoom then you better get patching, again. The patch from earlier this week wasn't good enough but now they've got it for sure this time, honest. 

Are there any privacy settings for that?

from here and here

Ever have one of those dreams where you're naked in school? I think being caught attending a parliamentary session from the comfort of the commode beats that hands down, especially since it's not a dream. Unfortunately I don't think there's any way for the software to protect you from making that kind of lapse in judgement.

Nothingburgers for everyone

from here

$15 - $25 per user for tricking users into thinking their communications were secure and private seems completely inadequate as either a form of restitution or as a deterrent to keep Zoom or other companies from doing it again.

The security claims were pulled out of their ass

from here

The lesson we should all learn from Zoom is that it's not really end-to-end encrypted if a middleman holds the keys. 

You can't censor what you can't see

from here

So Zoom doing the Chinese government's bidding is apparently a thing, and it makes me wonder if the flaws in their previous attempts at encryption were mistakes or perhaps something else. It also makes me wonder if their motivation for only giving their future end to end encryption to paying customers might be something other than the fight against child porn  ("Think of the children" is just a little too convenient).

When helping the police is more important than protecting you

from here and here (logo source)

Zoom sure picked an interesting time to side with the police instead of their users - just as the country is rocked by a rapidly escalating barrage of abuses of power by those same police.

That's an odd way to 'protect' it

from here and here (image source)

If a service prevents you from doing anything that might be considered private, do you still have privacy on their service? This is a very tree-falling-in-the-woods sort of approach that Zoom seems to be going for in their attempts to block nudity and/or sexual content from their service.

That's one way to add privacy to your Zoom meetings

found on Imgur

Even though he doesn't have Windows, I think the 4th panel demonstrates why he needs those blinds.

Cheap, Fast, or Secure... Pick Two

from here

So it appears that Zoom's "end-to-end" encryption only counts as end-to-end if you consider Zoom's servers themselves to be one of the ends. Specifically, according to their own blog, they have software running on their servers acting like legitimate communication endpoints so that they can send the unencrypted data to devices that don't support their end-to-end encryption. It's a backdoor dressed up as a compatibility feature. We have to take them at their word that this backdoor will never be used by misbehaving employees and that various governments will never or can never compel them to use it to reveal our communications.

They could have (and arguably should have) simply told customers they can't use the end-to-end encryption feature when participants are using devices that don't support it, but they chose to compromise the communication channel instead so that users could maintain a (now false) sense of security.

It's not a bug, it's a feature

from here

Apparently if enough people complain, that feature turns back into a bug.