[liberationtech] Zoom admitted, then denied, then admitted again that it censored an activist

[Aaron van Meerten]

Actually in the latest Chrome we have E2EE in Jitsi.  There’s not a great model for distribution of the key, so that is still required to happen out of band, but as long as all participants have the key, we do support E2EE, where the servers doing the forwarding do not have access to the media.

If you have a newer Chrome, check it out on https://meet.jit.si/

Cheers,

-Aaron

> On Jun 13, 2020, at 2:44 AM, Julian Oliver <julian at julianoliver.com> wrote:
> 
> ..on Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 05:01:51PM +1000, Sam De Silva wrote:
>> https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ isn’t bad.
> 
> I agree, and it has improved much the last year. I run a few instances myself
> for a large activist movement.  
> 
> BigBlueButton is more of a 'Zoom replacement' albeit, with room management and
> recording. It also has an integrated whiteboard, Etherpad, allows for slide
> share (PDF upload) and screen sharing. I also run a large instance of this on a
> dedicated box, 5 figure community using it around the clock. It needs a COTURN
> server to give a route for end-points behind a restrictive NAT or firewall
> (basically just maps the UDP port range needed by WebRTC to 443). Once tuned,
> it's really great. 
> 
> Neither are E2EE however, just like Zoom isn't (Zoom lied about that). E2EE for
> videoconferencing at scale is really hard.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Julian
> 
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>> Sam de Silva | Engagement Advisor
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>>> On 13 Jun 2020, at 12:28 pm, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/zoom-admits-cutting-off-activists-accounts-in-obedience-to-china <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/zoom-admits-cutting-off-activists-accounts-in-obedience-to-china>
>>> 
>>> So what did we agree is the best end-to-end encrypted alternative?
>>> 
>>> I tried Cisco Webex, which is Wirecutter-recommended, but it is glitchy (i.e., the dial-in numbers often do not work).
>>> 
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-video-conferencing-service/ <https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-video-conferencing-service/>
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