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 ## Zoom
 After the corona virus lockdown was declared in Illinois and the university shut down all classes on campus, the lectures needed a way to continue. Professor X went for [Zoom](https://zoom.us/). Zoom is proprietary crapware. You can download Zoom on your computer or use it through the browser which probably requires proprietary JavaScript and camera and microphone access. I emailed Professor X if there was another way I could watch the lectures. To accommodate me, he began recording the meetings and emailing them to everyone. However, he said he was still taking attendance with Zoom unfortunately. So I found out it's possible to use [SIP](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol). I attempted to set up an SIP account so I could use Zoom, but then I quickly gave up on that and decided on just using the recordings. I felt that I shouldn't have to do extra legwork to avoid using proprietary software. If professors are going to suggest proprietary software to students, which they shouldn't, then they should at least offer a free software alternative that works equally well. Of course, Zoom in the long run is turning out to be a disaster as proprietary software often does.
 
-I want to elaborate a bit on how Zoom is turning out to be a disaster. Zoom is a privacy nightmare. It actually has an attention tracking feature documented in the [knowledge base](https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Attendee-attention-tracking) which creepily allowed hosts of a Zoom meeting to track if the participants were paying attention or not. The CEO addressed [multiple issues](https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/). One issue was uninvited participants joining and crashing conferences. Another was that the iOS client contained the Facebook SDK. Facebook is a surveillance monster, so of course that was an absolute privacy disaster and it had to be removed. Zoom video and audio doesn't even have end-to-end encryption according to [this article](https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/). Hackers quickly found a way to exploit Zoom to expose Windows passwords and showed a screenshot of it on [Twitter](https://nitter.net/hackerfantastic/status/1245133371262619654). Some Zoom calls may have been routed through China, where geofencing should have prevented this. [The CEO didn't say how many users could have been effected](https://www.businessinsider.com/china-zoom-data-2020-4). China does not enforce laws about personal data privacy so who knows if the calls got collected, stored, or analyzed.
+I want to elaborate a bit on how Zoom is turning out to be a disaster. Zoom is a privacy nightmare. It actually has an attention tracking feature documented in the [knowledge base](https://web.archive.org/web/20200310192605/https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Attendee-attention-tracking) which creepily allowed hosts of a Zoom meeting to track if the participants were paying attention or not. The CEO addressed [multiple issues](https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/). One issue was uninvited participants joining and crashing conferences. Another was that the iOS client contained the Facebook SDK. Facebook is a surveillance monster, so of course that was an absolute privacy disaster and it had to be removed. Zoom video and audio doesn't even have end-to-end encryption according to [this article](https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/). Hackers quickly found a way to exploit Zoom to expose Windows passwords and showed a screenshot of it on [Twitter](https://nitter.net/hackerfantastic/status/1245133371262619654). Some Zoom calls may have been routed through China, where geofencing should have prevented this. [The CEO didn't say how many users could have been effected](https://www.businessinsider.com/china-zoom-data-2020-4). China does not enforce laws about personal data privacy so who knows if the calls got collected, stored, or analyzed.
 
 So now some universities are rushing over to Microsoft Teams, which will also be a privacy and security disaster forced upon students yet again. They are just going from one proprietary privacy disaster to the next when the best solution is to just use free software. Teams is proprietary and the Teams website requires proprietary JavaScript and perhaps worse a Microsoft account where you must agree to their insane terms of service. So at this point you may be wondering, what free software is out there that would be reasonable for schools to use that would be better? [Jitsi](https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/) seems like a very viable alternative. It allows video calling, voice calling, meetings between an unlimited number of participants, and no sign up or account required. I'm not sure about the encryption and data privacy it has, but at least you know it doesn't come with the Facebook SDK. Besides, there is also [Matrix](https://matrix.org/) which is cross-platform and has multiple clients. There are free software options available that universities should be looking into rather than all jumping onboard the Zoom train, then jumping onto the Teams train after Zoom derailed.