Affected users who are running X11 should audit their Zoom version, isolate conferencing workloads onto dedicated hardware or virtual machines, or move to a browser-based version of Zoom where sandboxing prevents unprompted clipboard access.
Anyone running a Linux system with Wayland should be OK.
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Yeah this is why Zoom is constantly pushing you to download their fucking app, and exactly why I don't fucking do it.
Why is Zoom even still popular? Remember when Apple had to push a security update to undo its insane HTTP daemon? I guess we’re all just okay trusting their janky-ass Windows adjacent UI and security model.
Why is Zoom even still popular?
I guess because that's a standard tool everyone in business has. Also the Microsoft alternatives (including Skype after buyout) sucks. I don't use these tools (used Skype before Microsoft purchased it), so this is not my personal opinion.
I don't even understand how it goes popular in the first place when Skype and Google Meet already existed before the Pandemic. It even had a whole "Chinese company/servers" scare too but it still held on.
this. my last companies security team was crazy aggressive but would allow zoom meetings right after the big security incident.
Would the sandbox permissions in Flatpak be able to block this?
I think so, but the sandbox can easily be broken in theory from what I heard. It'll probably be fine as long as Zoom doesn't add malicious code that does such a thing.
I'm going to have to go on some remote interviews sometime soon. I don't know if Zoom is the way those are usually done or if they use some other software that's more purpose-built for that. But whatever the case, I'll definitely have to figure out how to run whatever it is "in jail" somehow.
I would recommend running untrusted proprietary software as a webapp if possible, it will not be able to be as intrusive in that case compared to native app even with all the sandboxing (flatpak, snap, etc...). Or Virtual machine as the most secure option, but it may be overkill.
Stallman was right.
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