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Anybody that trusts zoom with anything even slightly sensitive these days is completely nuts. Yes, we know its easy to use.
99% of people do not care about privacy. They won't switch programs because a nation state might spy on them.
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I absolutely hate the term virtue signalling. It's always reductive and dismissive. If I am willing to go a LITTLE out of my way to protect my privacy, but not a LOT out of my way, am I "just virtue signalling"? If I continue to use a privacy-less platform (e.g. zoom/instagram/facebook) but just exercise caution with what I say using that medium, is that also "just virtue signalling"? I agree, evidence shows most peo…
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/stop-saying-virtue-signalling
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99% of people do not care about privacy. They won't switch programs because a nation state might spy on them.
Zoom is being used by at least one court system for remote hearings. Their barebones IT people are completely incapable of independently verifying Zoom's encryption claims.
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The goodwill has already been squandered. There’s simply nowhere else to jump to (jitsi lol). As soon as a viable competitor launches, everyone will jump. Same thing happened from Skype to Discord with the gaming community.
Jitsi Meet's not a viable competitor? It's simpler to set up (accounts and password protection are optional), IMO easier to use (eg. the hand button is on the bottom bar with mute, etc. and not in a menu labeled "Participants") and higher quality according to the New York Times, who deemed it "reliable and easy to use": https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-video-confer... . I've introduced it to extended f…
I'm not being facetious. If you compare the name Zoom to Jitsi, people will choose Zoom 9 out of 10 times. You won't get many people to even try Jitsi.
Zoom is quickly becoming a verb similar to what Skype used to be. Let's Skype. Let's Zoom. Everyone understands what that means.
Let's Jitsi... Let's what?
If I am sending fully encrypted high resolution video, wont a slow mobile device have trouble receiving it?
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I absolutely hate the term virtue signalling. It's always reductive and dismissive. If I am willing to go a LITTLE out of my way to protect my privacy, but not a LOT out of my way, am I "just virtue signalling"? If I continue to use a privacy-less platform (e.g. zoom/instagram/facebook) but just exercise caution with what I say using that medium, is that also "just virtue signalling"? I agree, evidence shows most peo…
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/stop-saying-virtue-signalling
Signaling being a term used by some niche fields. We have that happen all the time. It’s how language evolves.
The article says to use show off instead of virtue signaling. Right after the next argument is assuming the person is disingenuous. Which is exactly what you’re doing if you say they’re showing off. The two arguments can’t both be used. They are arguments against different things.
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99% of people do not care about privacy. They won't switch programs because a nation state might spy on them.
It looks like many Americans do now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23424245
Downloading of Signal doesn’t signify privacy concerns. I have Signal because others do. Not because I care about signal’s privacy.
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Zoom is being used by at least one court system for remote hearings. Their barebones IT people are completely incapable of independently verifying Zoom's encryption claims.
Would they use Jitsi if it was fully managed for them and free?
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If I had to decide the official comms app for my employer, I'd be wary of Google, due to their poor track record with comms apps.
Meet is a GSuite product, and the only video-conferencing app in GSuite. Google doesn't fuck with GSuite.