Thanks for sharing that article, Tennisboy. That a
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Thanks for sharing that article, Tennisboy. That article pointed out a few things I wasn't aware of. It linked to another article: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x56.html
That one says until just last week there was a bug where Zoom iOS app was sending data to Facebook even if you didn't have a Facebook account! They just patched that bug on March 28.
More scary is the Zoom installer that can escalate priviledge to root on iOS without asking. That gives it the keys to the kingdom and it could do any number of things since it has ultimate privilidges.
It can also do things like inject a malicious software library into zoom. An example would be that would allow access to the camera and microphone without the user's knowledge!
There's more but one can read the article for the details.
I'll say one thing: I only used Zoom once a few months ago and thought it was pretty neat. Now, forget that, I'll never use it again, if someone I want to talk with insists on that they are out of luck. I'm uninstalling the Zoom app from my iPhone and iPad, and making sure there's no Zoom software on my iMac!
Their security flaws are inexcusable, and some of them are the types of things a junior programmer would do such as having it default to not requiring passwords, and not putting any protection against repeated invalid attempts.
That one says until just last week there was a bug where Zoom iOS app was sending data to Facebook even if you didn't have a Facebook account! They just patched that bug on March 28.
More scary is the Zoom installer that can escalate priviledge to root on iOS without asking. That gives it the keys to the kingdom and it could do any number of things since it has ultimate privilidges.
It can also do things like inject a malicious software library into zoom. An example would be that would allow access to the camera and microphone without the user's knowledge!
There's more but one can read the article for the details.
I'll say one thing: I only used Zoom once a few months ago and thought it was pretty neat. Now, forget that, I'll never use it again, if someone I want to talk with insists on that they are out of luck. I'm uninstalling the Zoom app from my iPhone and iPad, and making sure there's no Zoom software on my iMac!
Their security flaws are inexcusable, and some of them are the types of things a junior programmer would do such as having it default to not requiring passwords, and not putting any protection against repeated invalid attempts.
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