[liberationtech] Will they or won't they? Zoom backtracks yet again and says they will offer E2EE to all users

[fuzzyTew]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 2:03 PM Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/17/end-to-end-encryption-update/
>

I'm remembering the Hushmail fiasco, where federal agents actually forced
the provider of E2EE email to add a backdoor to their client side code that
extracted and preserved the private key of the users.

Pair that with big organizations like IBM denying facial recognition to law
enforcement due to the current ongoing violent controversy over misuse of
authority.

Zoom has been a very large video chat system during the coronavirus
pandemic.  They must have a lot of disparate pressures.  It's nice of them
to show us how difficult it is to offer real security as a for-profit
corporation.

They may not have heard of the Hushmail history.  I imagine that kind of
thing could be done with a system compromise, too, which is hard for anyone
to prevent for everyone.

I wonder if there is a way to defend against situations like Hushmail
happening a little, or to get people to believe more that open reviewable
source is profitable.
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