If you’re a free Zoom user, and waiting for the company to roll out end-to-end encryption for better protection of your calls, you’re out of luck. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan today said that the video conferencing app’s upcoming end-to-end encryption feature will be available to only paid users.įree calls won’t be encrypted, and law enforcement will be able to access your information in case of ‘misuse’ of the platform. After announcing the company’s financial results for Q1 2020, Yuan said the firm wants to keep this feature away from free users to work with law enforcement in case of the app’s misuse:įree users, for sure, we don’t want to give that. In the past, platforms with end-to-end encryption, such as WhatsApp, have faced heavy scrutiny in many countries because they were unable to trace the origins of problematic and misleading messages.īecause we also want to work it together with FBI and local law enforcement, in case some people use Zoom for bad purpose. Zoom likey wants to avoid being in such a position, and wants to comply with local laws to keep operating across the globe.Īlex Stamos, working as a security consultant with Zoom, said it wants to catch repeat offenders for hate speech or child exploitative content by not offering end-to-end encryption t0 free users. Zoom is dealing with some serious safety issues. The bug was fixed last month, so users are recommended to update immediately. The app was deleting the files from the chat but kept them locally stored in unencrypted form. Keybase was vulnerable to a local attack that could expose supposedly deleted images. When people disrupt meetings (sometimes with hate speech, CSAM, exposure to children and other illegal behaviors) that can be reported by the host. Images Deleted on ‘Keybase’ Chat Are Still Retrievable. Zoom is working with law enforcement on the worst repeat offenders. Exclusive: Flaws in Zoom’s Keybase App Kept Chat Images From Being Deleted A serious flaw in Zoom’s Keybase secure chat application left copies of images contained in secure communications on Keybase users’ computers after they were supposedly deleted. In March, The Intercept published a report stating that the company doesn’t use end-to-end encryption, despite claiming that on its website and security white paper. Later, Zoom apologized and issued a clarification to specify it didn’t provide the feature at that time. The acquisition comes weeks after Zoom admitted it actually wasn’t offering end-to-end encryption, as previously advertised. Last month, the company acquired Keybase.io, an encryption-based identity service, to build its end-to-end encryption offering. So the company is tapping Keybase, which runs its own encrypted chat. Yuan said today that the company got a lot of feedback from users on encryption, and it’s working out on executing it. However, he didn’t specify a release date for the feature.Īccording to the Q1 2020 results, the company grew 169% year-on-year in terms of revenue. Speculation runs high, however, that the Keybase app, and it's tools, will die a slow death from lack of attention while the brains behind it work on Zoom's security flaws. Zoom has more than 300 million daily participants attending meetings through the platform. Flaws in zoom keybase kept images free#.
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