| ▲ | iso1631 5 hours ago | |||||||
Zoom came along with a securre video/voice chat, sure it's American, but it was by far the world leader Microsoft then used its monopoly in office tools to push Teams to everyone You can't compete with a trillion dollar company offering your product as a bundle your clients already pay for, even if your product is better. Even VC money runs out eventually | ||||||||
| ▲ | Y-bar 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Zoom has long been the most unsecure video/voice application. Remember how they installed an open web server on people's computers which could be accessed by anyone through the web? https://infosecwriteups.com/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-... Apple had to step in and patch it for them: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-a... Or when they sent your chat data to Facebook? https://www.vice.com/en/article/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-f... How it was discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703000 Or when Zoom was leaking private information? https://www.vice.com/en/article/zoom-leaking-email-addresses... Or do you remember how those geniuses rolled their own crypto? https://citizenlab.ca/research/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypt... Or maybe you remember that Zoom has the ability to listen in in real-time on meetings held on their platform? | ||||||||
| ▲ | steve1977 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
To be fair, Microsoft already had Skype (for Business) and NetMeeting before that. It's not like they were new to that market. NetMeeting existed for more than a decade before Zoom even came into existence. Zoom had COVID-19 play in it's favor, that's about it. | ||||||||
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