Zoom is a safety and privateness disaster, however till now had managed to keep away from public accountability as a result of it was comparatively obscure. Now that it is within the highlight, it is all popping out. (Their 4/1 response to all of that is here.) On 4/2, the corporate said it could freeze all characteristic improvement and concentrate on safety and privateness. Let’s examine if that is something greater than a PR transfer.

Within the meantime, it is best to both lock Zoom down as finest you possibly can, or — higher but — abandon the platform altogether. Jitsi is a distributed, free, and open-source different. Begin your assembly here.