Faced with the many flaws in Zoom, a very popular videoconferencing platform today, the city of New York has decided to ban its use in its 1,800 schools.
Very popular for telecommuting and “telecours” during this generalized and prolonged confinement, Zoom is currently a victim of its own success. This online videoconferencing platform, a priori encrypted, is said to be plagued by numerous flaws and hijackings that threaten the security of users. In the United States, the FBI himself have already identified a problematic phenomenon of “zoom bombing”Where people not authorized to participate in certain conversations would quite easily manage to break in and cause trouble or eavesdrop on the conversations. More recently the Washington Post revealed that thousands of videos recorded by users on Zoom would be kept on third-party cloud servers with unprotected access. If it depends on the action of a user, this phenomenon only exists because of the lack of restrictions imposed by Zoom and the lack of permissions requested from other videoconferencing participants.
As a result of this accumulation of privacy and security issues currently resurfacing, New York City (the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island) has banned the use of Zoom in its schools for their distance learning courses. According to TechCrunch, more than a million students, shared between 1,800 schools, would be affected by this measure. US Department of Education encourages schools to make more use of professional software Microsoft Teams who benefits “The same functions and more appropriate security options.” For some schools, the change may be difficult as Zoom has become a popular tool following the start of confinement. If the company behind the famous videoconferencing platform has not yet reacted to this decision, its CEO, Eric Yuan, would have recently apologized for the errors raised previously: in particular, the transmission of video calls from China or the bad encryption. communication data. Since then, Zoom has nevertheless implemented the addition of a password to access a videoconference.
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