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by JumpCrisscross 2264 days ago
> Is there any evidence that other teleconferencing solutions meet or exceed what's described in this blog article?

Did they market themselves as end-to-end encrypted?

Zoom has security problems. This isn't one of them. This is a marketing, and more fundamentally, potential culture/honesty problem. (Best case, it's one of attention to detail. Marketing didn't understand a term, used it and nobody looked back.)

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Or is it that Zoom is so ubiquitous, that they get the scrutiny? But every other vendor doesn't get this level of scrutiny?
> every other vendor doesn't get this level of scrutiny?

One, that doesn’t excuse false advertising. Two, yes, it makes more sense to scrutinise things everyone uses than things nobody does.

Growing pains are nothing new. How a culture reacts to such pains is informative.