As there have been countless cases of Zoombombing in the recent weeks, the security in the video conferencing platform Zoom has been doubted by its users. In response to this, Zoom finally announced on Thursday that they will be implementing and offering end-to-end encryption.
With the acquisition of Keybase, a New York-based startup specializing in encrypted messaging and cloud services, Zoom will finally be able to make good on its claims of offering end-to-end encryption.
“We are excited to integrate Keybase’s team into the Zoom family to help us build end-to-end encryption that can reach current Zoom scalability,” CEO Eric Yuan said in a Zoom blog post on Thursday.
Unfortunately, not all Zoom users will benefit from the company’s new move, as the end-to-end encryption feature will only be available to users who have paid plans (which start at $14.99/month, by the way) on the video conferencing platform.
If a meeting’s host has enabled this feature, participants will be barred from joining by phone and cloud-based recording will be disabled. In Thursday’s blog post, Yuan emphasized that the feature will not store the encryption key on Zoom’s servers, so the company will not be able to see any part of the call.
What are your thoughts about this one?
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Easiest way is WebRTC based. Visit a site like https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ put in a meeting name, Grant permissions for camera and mic. Set a password. Then send the link (and pass) to anyone you want to join. Nothing to install. Companies can set up their own jitsi or other WebRTC servers easily, too.
THEN they want everyone to pay for a feature they claimed to have already had. Not just the hosts or organizers of the meeting, no. Everyone. Every single attendee. Then on top of all that, half the features of their service will stop working. Brilliant!