| From: Christopher Browne via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 19:00, Scott Allen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | > On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 18:39, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | > <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | > > And this, reported today: | > > <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/technology/zoom-linkedin-data.html> | It all suggests to me that we shouldn't consider it as more than a | temporary stopgap measure. | | And I'd think that individuals should consider things like the following... But wait, there's more! The linkedin mining is a concern. It means that individuals should create a throw-away email account to then create a zoom account. Don't use your real email account. In what other ways do they abuse your email account? The one time I've used zoom (for a talk by Myles) I used a chromebook that hadn't otherwise been used for years. I thought I was safe. But no, I used my main email account to create a Zoom account. So: Zoom has so many and so varied a set of problems that I'm now quite unhappy with it. It's a great argument for free/libre software. ================ I've also used Cisco's webex once. Documented Linux support has severe bitrot. Its Linux app is 32-bit only. Its browser support requires Java of some particular type. It seems to require obsolete versions of CentOS (6, if I remember correctly) or Ubuntu (16.04, if I remember correctly). Cisco has signalled several ways over a couple of decades that it hates Linux (and the GPL in general). I ended up using Windows. And even that was bad: the mic didn't work in Windows, even thought it did in Linux. So I had to switch to a different Windows notebook in the middle of a very expensive meeting. Even with the new computer, connectivity dropped out a few times.