Zoom Nothing Like Success in Times of Travail

[GURPS]

To Bred a Congressional Investigation



This time, the theatrics are coming courtesy of congressional Democrats and state attorneys general—two groups skilled at taking social ills and science problems and turning them into self-promotional opportunities.

"Virtual conferencing platform Zoom is facing the prospect of mounting legal threats in Washington after a slew of prominent Democratic lawmakers urged federal regulators Tuesday to investigate its privacy and security lapses," reports Politico's Cristiano Lima.

Those calling for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Zoom include Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Michael Bennet (Colo.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Frank Pallone (N.J.), and Jan Schakowsky (Ill.).

In statements to Politico, spokespeople for Bennet and Klobuchar expressed vague concerns about Zoom user "privacy and security." Brown put his thoughts in a letter last week.

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Stories about lax data privacy practices, leaked videos, and hacked meetings have made the news recently, and these are certainly worth keeping a media and privacy watchdog spotlight on. But the political impulse we're witnessing—broadly accuse first, find evidence later (maybe)—is a dangerous one.
In Washington, independent and supposedly neutral investigations by federal regulators have a way of turning into congressional witch hunts when bureaucrats bring back results legislators don't like.

 

[DaSDGuy]

No such thing as a neutral investigation anymore. Results are already decided before the investigation begins, and god help you if you don't arrive at the predetermined result.

 

[Clem72]

So wait, are you now in favor of the Chinese owned "Secure" conference software that accidentally routes your session data through China and uses a Chinese CA (circtification authority) that is known to supply broken encryption tokens?

I assume you are super trusting of Zoom because the congress critters asking for an investigation are Ds? That should make it even more convincing since it's the Ds that are againt going after Huawei despite their obvious ties to the Chinese government.

 

[DaSDGuy]

So wait, are you now in favor of the Chinese owned "Secure" conference software that accidentally routes your session data through China and uses a Chinese CA (circtification authority) that is known to supply broken encryption tokens?

I assume you are super trusting of Zoom because the congress critters asking for an investigation are Ds? That should make it even more convincing since it's the Ds that are againt going after Huawei despite their obvious ties to the Chinese government.

Don't trust Zoom at all myself. But if the chinese want to listen in on my wife talking to her five kids then they can have at it. They can try to figure out the howitz goin' code they are speaking. In fact, everyone should use it to give them the equivalent of a DOS attack.

 

[stgislander]

The Zoom servers appear to be having major issues this morning. My church tried twice this morning to hold services but many of us didn't have any audio. They are going to try again this evening.

 

[vraiblonde]

Zoom must not have paid their protection money. If they were kicking in to the Democrat coffers, they'd be touted as the world leader in communication services. Google siphons a shitton of our personal information and sells it to whoever the hell they please every single day, but because they're on board with the Leftist pogrom the political thugs leave them alone.