On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 8:18 PM Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have concerns about the inclusion of zoom in ::gentoo. For me it's more > like a malware. > From the hacker news feed you'll find out that:
I guess we could stick an einfo in the post-install messages, but if you're joining a zoom meeting are you going to be any more secure if you manually install the files instead? I can't imagine that people are going to stop attending meetings just because they picked the wrong software to host them. Plus a few of those concerns apply to MANY packages - such as a lack of end-to-end encryption, or ever having had a zero day. I'm not intending to endorse Zoom here, but Gentoo isn't really intended as a purist distro that will never include a package if it is associated with a service that might collect user data and so on. In fact, we have many packages with these associations. Ultimately users can decide what they want to run, and we're just providing the files in the most convenient and secure manner possible. For example, when the zero day is fixed if you're using Gentoo you'll benefit from our security policy, while you would not if you had just manually installed some files/etc... -- Rich
