<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This is what Zoom does not want you to know:<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">****************************************</div><div class=""><p class="Mb(1.0em) canvas-atom Mt(0.8em)--sm Mb(0)--sm canvas-text" type="text" content="Zoom’s statement was triggered by research from Citizen Lab, which found that in some cases, the company’s encryption keys had significant weaknesses." data-reactid="31" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Popular video-conferencing company Zoom Video Communications (</span><a href="https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/zm/price-target" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(45, 144, 255); text-decoration: none;" class="">ZM</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">) admitted that it had “mistakenly” allowed calls to flow through China, adding to a number of mis-steps raising doubt on the security of the platform.</span></p><p class="Mb(1.0em) canvas-atom Mt(0.8em)--sm Mb(0)--sm canvas-text" type="text" content="Zoom’s statement was triggered by research from Citizen Lab, which found that in some cases, the company’s encryption keys had significant weaknesses." data-reactid="31" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">……..</p><p class="Mb(1.0em) canvas-atom Mt(0.8em)--sm Mb(0)--sm canvas-text" type="text" content="Zoom’s statement was triggered by research from Citizen Lab, which found that in some cases, the company’s encryption keys had significant weaknesses." data-reactid="31" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Zoom’s statement was triggered by research from Citizen Lab, which found that in some cases, the company’s encryption keys had significant weaknesses.</p><p class="Mb(1.0em) canvas-atom Mt(0.8em)--sm Mb(0)--sm canvas-text" type="text" content="“During multiple test calls in North America, we observed keys for encrypting and decrypting meetings transmitted to servers in Beijing, China,” the report said warning that the app should not be used by users sharing sensitive and confidential information." data-reactid="32" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“During multiple test calls in North America, we observed keys for encrypting and decrypting meetings transmitted to servers in Beijing, China,” the report said warning that the app should not be used by users sharing sensitive and confidential information.</p><div class="">****************************************</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For more information, please see the following article:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zoom-admits-calls-were-mistakenly-123356776.html" class="">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zoom-admits-calls-were-mistakenly-123356776.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I don’t understand is that why SDSU is trying convince us that Zoom is safe!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
--------------------------------------------------<br class="">Ashkan Ashrafi, Ph.D., SMIEEE<br class="">Associate Professor<br class="">Director, Signal Processing Research Laboratory<br class=""><br class="">Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering<br class="">San Diego State University<br class="">5500 Campanile Dr., E-410A<br class="">San Diego, CA 92182-1309<br class="">Tel: (619)594-3703<br class="">Fax: (619)594-2654 <br class=""><a href="mailto:ashrafi@mail.sdsu.edu" class="">email: ashrafi@mail.sdsu.edu</a><br class="">URL: ashrafi.sdsu.edu<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 8, 2020, at 8:51 AM, William Nguyen <<a href="mailto:wnguyen@sdsu.edu" class="">wnguyen@sdsu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi All,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FYI.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="https://it.sdsu.edu/security/protect/zoom_protection.aspx" class="">https://it.sdsu.edu/security/protect/zoom_protection.aspx</a> <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Thank You,</div><div class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">William Nguyen<br class=""></div><div class="">Operating Systems Analyst </div><div class="">College of Engineering, ENG-202A</div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">San Diego State University</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">5500 Campanile Drive</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">San Diego, CA 92182-1326</span></div><div class="">Tel: 619-594-1166<br class=""></div><div class="">Fax: 619-594-6005</div><div class="">E-mail: <a href="mailto:wnguyen@sdsu.edu" target="_blank" class="">wnguyen@sdsu.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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