On 31/5/24 07:33, Dan Ritter wrote:
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Does it work through a browser?
Zoom works through a browser. Google Meet works through a
browser. MS Teams works through a browser. And Jitsi works
through a browser.
-dsr-
Using each of those, apparently, comes with its own varying degree of risk.
Zoom and google might be okay, if you want your calls content
intercepted and sold, and, used for impersonation, etc.
jitsi has been regarded as the relatively safest.
The problems of zoom, etc ("we are recording you through your bedroom
window, so we can use whatever amuses us"), has previously been
discussed on this list, and, at The Register, with the Free Software
Foundation telling its people to not uses zoom, and, recommending and
adopting jitsi, for such communications.
Search list archive for zoom...
One great disadvantage, as far as I am aware, with skype, is that it has
been available only for limited platforms; I have siblings who use Mac
systems, for which, skype does not work. They use zoom for video calls,
as it is cross-platform. They do not have the ICT awareness, to be aware
of problems with zoom, in terms of privacy and security breaches by the
provider.
A problem is that some people and institutions, are fixed in their ways,
and mandate skype or zoom, or some other similarly disreputable software.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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