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by livueta 2256 days ago
The report is technically true but also misleading by omission / its very existence: how many Microsoft accounts are sold on the darkweb? Tons, because accounts being sold on the darkweb is the default state of basically any online service. Credential-stuffing your way to a big list of accounts is not a new phenomenon, but reporting breathlessly on Zoom's latest fuckup without providing context is likely to give non-technical readers the wrong impression.

This isn't a reason to not want actual problems in Zoom fixed, but misrepresenting their posture relative to the rest of the industry benefits nobody besides incumbents.