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Ask HN: Secure Zoom Alternative

17 pointsxupybd17 comments

What is everyone using instead of zoom given the security concerns?

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Jitsi and 8x8

https://meet.jit.si/

That looks great but is the room access security the obscurity of the room name?

You can set a password for the room in the bottom left panel.

No, it is not.

Jitsi Meet is a clone of Google Meet; Zoom is a different product. Although Jitsi borrows some features, it lacks strict control. When working with young students, you understand why there needs to be stricter control on who can talk, who can present, raise hands, run polls, etc.

Jitsi is good but it makes CPUs run hot.

Jitsi and Google Meet both use WebRTC. Although it sounds like a great technology, it's really CPU taxing and not inclusive as some of our students didn't have high-end hardware and connection, and we just couldn't run our school on Jitsi/Google Meet. However, Zoom in the browser is equally bad, so, it's subpar on Chromebooks.

Ask HN: What are some open source alternative to Zoom

30 points by blohs 42 days ago | 19 comments

If video chats are not necessary, I think Matrix/Riot.IM would be cool.

Edit: oh Riot does have video chat

https://about.riot.im/why-riot

WhereBy.com is great, it's pure p2p WebRTC for the smaller rooms, but >=12 ppl rooms use a bounce server that they host.

Skype for business (when it works, doesn't degrade to low quality or disconnect)

https://jamm.app

It is not the same product.

Restream Studio is great

It is not the same product.

p2p.chat does what it says on the tin. It worked a treat using Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04. No screensharing though!

Replying to my own comment because the editing time has expired to also give a shout out to Nextcloud Talk.

Never mind that all of Nextcloud is already a huge groupware boon of FOSS goodness, the new Nextcloud 19 just dropped with big improvements to Talk like scalable video quality.

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