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by prophesi 2264 days ago
"Zoom has always strived to use encryption to protect content in as many scenarios as possible, and in that spirit, we used the term end-to-end encryption. While we never intended to deceive any of our customers, we recognize that there is a discrepancy between the commonly accepted definition of end-to-end encryption and how we were using it."

In other words, "We deceived our customers with false advertising but we're never going to admit that."

2 comments

"We never intended to deceive any customers when we invented a new definition of e2e encryption"
"The business and marketing teams, who have never heard of the term e2e before, looked for a term to describe the feature of having every part of leg of the call encrypted, came up with e2e, and used it in the copy."
Oh fucking hell, that corporate bullshit.

If my non-existant wife catches me snorting coke out of a stripper's ass I'm going to say "I recognize that there's a discrepancy between the commonly accepted definition of marriage fidelity and how I'm using it."