For individuals who haven’t any selection however to make use of Zoom, together with in contexts the place secrets and techniques could also be shared, we speculate that the browser plugin could have some marginally higher safety properties, as knowledge transmission happens over TLS. 

Use Zoom Passwords, Keep away from Ready Rooms

As half of our analysis, we recognized what we consider to be a severe safety problem with Zoom’s Waiting Room function. We have now initiated a accountable disclosure course of with Zoom, which is at the moment being responsive. We hope that the firm will shortly act to patch and present an advisory. In the meantime, we advise Zoom customers who need confidentiality to not use Zoom Ready Rooms. As a substitute, we encourage customers to use Zoom’s password function, which seems to supply the next degree of confidentiality than ready rooms. Directions on password options can be found here.