New York City schools ban Zoom

Interesting:

As schools lie empty, students still have to learn. But officials in New York City say schools are not permitted to use Zoom for remote teaching, citing security concerns with the video conferencing service.

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News of the ban comes after a barrage of criticism over the company’s security policies and privacy practices, as hundreds of millions of users forced to work during the pandemic from home turn to the video calling platform. On Friday, Zoom’s chief executive apologized for “mistakenly” routing some calls through China, after researchers said the setup would put ostensibly encrypted calls at risk of interception by Chinese authorities. Zoom also apologized for claiming its service was end-to-end encrypted when it was not.
Zoom also changed its default settings to enable passwords on video calls by default after a wave of “Zoombombing” attacks, which saw unprotected calls invaded by trolls and used to broadcast abusive content.

There's actually a lot more Zoom security history here; this is not a new situation.

I have to say that this is the biggest example of security hurting a product that I can remember, and I've been doing this for a long, long time.

UDATE 6 April 2020 11:33: Security bigwig Bruce Schneier is pretty harsh in his assessment of Zoom. Security bigwig Steve Bellovin is less harsh in his.

UPDATE 6 April 2020 14:01: Good Zoom security guidance.