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

[David Stodolsky]

> On 18 Jun 2020, at 04:17, fuzzyTew <fuzzytew at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary>

dss

David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
dss at socialinformatics.org          Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070

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