New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

Oh goody, on the radio the Canadian government just suggested people use Zoom for passover and even said they are too. 

[OriZ 3,157]

On 4/8/2020 at 1:13 AM, millefleur said:

I just notice my SMS is extremely laggy, I don't know why. It's especially horrible at sending/receiving any kind of photos. Texts also come in weird from people who have iPhones , sometimes they cut off randomly or appear out of order if it's a long message (I have an Android). I'm using the Verizon text app for reference: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.verizon.messaging.vzmsgs&hl=en_US

 

Telegram is also great for voice calls but it doesn't have a video call option sadly. I still mainly use Skype for that. I've only ever used Zoom at work for remote meetings.

 

 

Yeah, I like TG. I use both TG and WhatsApp regularly, what I don't particularly like though is Discord even though some people much prefer it over TG.

[TBoneTX 45,309]

12 hours ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Oh goody, on the radio the Canadian government just suggested people use Zoom for passover and even said they are too. 

Now the Chinese will know why hacking this night is different from hacking all other nights.

[sl1pstream 551]

3 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Now the Chinese will know why hacking this night is different from hacking all other nights.

What exactly do you expect them to gain by hacking passover, or thousands of other boring things happening on Zoom?

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

33 minutes ago, sl1pstream said:

What exactly do you expect them to gain by hacking passover, or thousands of other boring things happening on Zoom?

Right? What does the NSA have to gain by wiretapping people all over the world? So boring.

 

Picture of an NSA agent wiretapping people. ☝️

[sl1pstream 551]

5 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Right? What does the NSA have to gain by wiretapping people all over the world? So boring.

 

Picture of an NSA agent wiretapping people. ☝️

That's not an answer though. 😛

Edited April 9, 2020 by sl1pstream

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

8 hours ago, sl1pstream said:

That's not an answer though. 😛

I'm more presuming you're smart enough to understand why hacking private conversations eventually produces intel, not to mention exposes the hacked party to further intrusions, which, when a government, is usually called a national security threat nowadays. That would be why NYC banned it, and, where national security is literally life and death, Taiwan.

Edited April 9, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[sl1pstream 551]

Just now, Burnt Reynolds said:

I'm more presuming you're smart enough to understand why hacking private conversations eventually produces intel, not to mention exposes the hacked party to further intrusions, which, when a government, is usually called a national security threat nowadays.

You do understand that, if you have access to every conversation, you're going to be filtering who you're going to listen to instead of wasting millions of hours listening to a bunch of drunk uncles rant about how COVID really isn't any worse than the flu.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

FYI the DOD just banned this while last week it was seen as way to possible connect with each other

 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

21 minutes ago, sl1pstream said:

You do understand that, if you have access to every conversation, you're going to be filtering who you're going to listen to instead of wasting millions of hours listening to a bunch of drunk uncles rant about how COVID really isn't any worse than the flu.

Every conversation? All of them? For an indefinite period of time? Hackers don't know how to target? 

[sl1pstream 551]

10 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Every conversation? All of them? For an indefinite period of time? Hackers don't know how to target? 

That's literally what I'm asking. Why would they target boring unimportant conversations when there's more important or interesting stuff out there?

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

38 minutes ago, sl1pstream said:

That's literally what I'm asking. Why would they target boring unimportant conversations when there's more important or interesting stuff out there?

I'm sure there are some who don't mind, I've dealt with hackers on competing platforms who joined our servers and chats just for the hell of it. Funny enough, they were pretty cool about it and we were joking about memes, other languages, etc.

 

But the error in your posts is the assumption that they are blindly guessing servers and have to listen in for some indefinite time without an ability to target people. If you're talking the novice high schooler "zoom bombing", sure. For hackers? In this example, the Canadian government, has employees, some may already be compromised and not know it. So if they work for an agency who sends them an email, text, etc. from Zoom, which already has unsecured hashes in the email/attachment, this is just one example of how easy it is to target, in my very limited scope of security knowledge. Guaranteed, hackers have plenty of other ways.

Edited April 9, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[TBoneTX 45,309]

20 hours ago, sl1pstream said:

What exactly do you expect them to gain by hacking passover, or thousands of other boring things happening on Zoom?

Was supposed to have been funny.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

59 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Was supposed to have been funny.

Lost.  

Edited April 10, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

17 hours ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Lost.  

Oh, how I miss Lost.  Great times with hime here...