in the Midst of the Corona-pandemic countless people around the globe Video-conferencing, to your family and friends not only hear but also see. In addition to long-established programs such as Skype, reached Zoom to popularity. The advantage of Using the App, thousands of people can be at the same time in a conference.
However, due to the increased access also shows how resilient and well Apps developed are actually. How to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan admitted already, lack of Zoom, some of the security measures, which would have made it but the rush is noticeable. However, in order to be in the future, the end.
New safety standards in the case of Zoom
Against the so-called “zoom bombing” grab two new measures, such as the technology magazine TechCrunch reported. The company shall, in addition to a password query. A user receives the Link or the ID to the Zoom Meeting, the user must enter the appropriate password to be able to join the conference.
How would that work? The company presents the scenario as follows: Is a phone call spontaneously, shows a Zoom Client with the matching PIN. The Meeting is planning, however, to send the organiser the appropriate password to the participants by invitation.
So that users can not occur immediately and arbitrarily in the conference, the Moderator of the conference, also more powers. In addition to the password request, there is now also a waiting room. The Moderator decides which of the participants in the conference and which are not – so at least in theory.
Weak privacy for Zoom-user
The Problem is that the Zoom Unauthorized persons can on the one hand, scamming is relatively easy to Link to a conference. On the other hand, the App not works on encrypted on the other hand, completely. Especially caused a stir: this is Because end-to-end encryption Zoom guaranteed only in the case of Chats, and between each of the active endpoints of the participants. That is to say: only by the user to the Zoom Server. In addition, the encryption is not to attack, when a conference participant from the Zoom Software and from the phone you are dialing in to a conference.
In addition, the company admitted in another blog entry that Video-Meetings were conducted in February, partly on China-based Server. Even if the conferences were not held in China. The Background: Since the Zoom was not equipped for the enormous access, the company took on many new servers for the new mass Available. Countless of these new servers are also in China, as it is called. The Routing to 3 since. April, according to Eric Yuan changed been, so that only the servers in the vicinity of the user are used.
This article by Simone Warnke
*The contribution of “Zoom and privacy: the App is against zoom, in order to proceed bomb” was written and published by Inside phone. Contact with the executives here.
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