OK, that would be serious flaw, and also the current blog post states clearly that they do, so if that's a lie, then we have a much bigger problem on our hands than whether they should be using the term "end-to-end encryption."
> To be clear, in a meeting where all of the participants are using Zoom clients, and the meeting is not being recorded, we encrypt all video, audio, screen sharing, and chat content at the sending client, and do not decrypt it at any point before it reaches the receiving clients.
I'm not claiming it is end-to-end, nor did I expect it to be, but perhaps some people would assume that. I thought you were claiming they don't use encryption at all.
Most of the comments here seem to be about the cons of removing encryption or backdooring encryption, but I don't think the author is suggesting that.
I think the article is only advocating for a checkbox in the settings menu to enable encryption for any would-be communication medium, which is turned off by default. I'm not especially against this, so long as there are no detractors to enabling this option.
In addition to this, they've also locked the ability for users to vote for this feature so even if you do sign in, you can't vote for end to end encryption to be implemented.
The question is simple: Are they building it with end-to-end encryption? If not, it deserves all the criticism. Security/privacy has to be part of the design and cannot be bolted on post-facto.
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