Given Zoom’s history of “mistakenly” doing things, I don’t think your concern is completely unfounded.

The FBI have previously issued warnings[1] about Zoom “accidentally” routing calls through China and for “accidentally” allowing CCP officials to monitor and end calls made outside of China they don’t like[2].

This is just the latest “accident” we’ve found out about. You’d be a fool to think there won’t be more.

1. https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/boston/news/pre...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he...

There's companies that are just bad at some parts of the business. Myspace was like that, really slow programmers, reportedly. Like implementing things the executives knew they could do and weren't that hard, took them ages.

In his essays, Paul Graham talks about this. If you are a company with no software brains at the top, the only way of getting ahold of competent programmers is luck. And business founders generally ruin their own luck.

As a developer, this silly cryptography check would be very useful during development phases to avoid signing after each compilation. IMHO, they "just" failed to replace the development code by the production code during delivery. A simple mistake ;-)