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Old Apr 14, 2020 | 8:03 pm
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Originally Posted by meltedmarshmellow
I ideally would like to participate however I refuse to use Zoom given the security implications. I realize I'm no one here so feel free to completely ignore my tech platform comments.
If it makes you feel better, the vast majority of the security issues don't apply to us.

Unless you trust every other attendee, nothing stops anyone from recording the entire thing and posting it online somewhere. And since we allow everyone to join (because we're friendly and because FT rules require it), there's always some kind of risk of a random person tuning in and listening/recording.

And because of that, whether or not it's E2E encrypted isn't really relevant, since the above is a much lower hanging fruit to attack than any kind of MITM attack on the encryption.

In a business or government setting, where the attendees are all trusted, and you may have hostile foreign governments, I might agree that Zoom has issues (though they've fixed a LOT in the past few weeks). But not here.
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