Zoom has received a fair bit of critical feedback lately. Has anyone given other platforms such as Vidyo identical levels of scrutiny?
The first one was about an advertisement pixel, which everybody is doing but for some reason surfaced only for Zoom.
The second one is end-to-end encryption, which is not expected at all for VC apps. NOBODY does it!
Irrelevant. That as nothing to due with the fact that they say they are. Zoom is being completely dishonest, and as some other commented here, some orgs like in health care area, have E2E encryption as requirement, Zoom says they have, but don't. It's literally fraud.
"Achieve HIPAA (signed BAA) and PIPEDA/PHIPA compliance with complete end-to-end 256-bit AES encryption."
2. end-to-end has several meanings, for users it means what Signal does, for machines it means TLS is securing edges.
According to the article Apple does end-to-end encryption for video conferences. Also other providers are not lying about it like zoom does.
Google Duo does.
But i am happy theres media attention for this exact topic because it was dishonest all the time and people have chosen zoom over other solutions because zoom is the only one claiming end to end encryption.
1. https://support.goto.com/meeting/help/security-faqs-g2m05001...
Most devices now do video encoding/decoding in a dedicated hardware unit, so those additional streams will have a vastly disproportionate impact on performance and power consumption. Some desktops and high-performance laptops support multiple streams, but most mobile devices don't. It's feasible, but very much non-trivial.