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by sameyepatch 2269 days ago
What I understand from that statement is that the data travels encrypted and each client does the encryption/decryption duty, not that they are able to decrypt the data at any point but decide not to.

I guess that using "we" in their statement is a tad misleading and can make people arrive at conclusions.

But that's just my point of view, it could still mean they can decrypt at any point.

EDIT: Someone else made the point of the other channels that do not support Zoom's encryption. I read about it in the article but I did not put two and two together. I guess I spoke too soon, seems Zoom can decrypt data at will after all.

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> What I understand from that statement is that the data travels encrypted and each client does the encryption/decryption duty, not that they are able to decrypt the data at any point but decide not to.

Those two things are not mutually exclusive. It reads to me like they are implicitly acknowledging that client-side "private" security keys aren't really private but are also stored elsewhere in Zoom's system.