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| From | Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Zoom- best practice? |
| Date | 2020-06-06 03:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <AevON-43c-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <AeqvM-5x-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 6/5/20 13:48, Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Jun 2020 at 09:28:21 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > >> Family is using Zoom, International. >> They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. > > Seems straightforward. Just get on with it. > >> I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR >> >> I am concerned about security, duh! > > Really? Just get on with communicating with your family. That's a bit > more important than worrying about possible non-existent issues and > basing your actions on them. > I'll second this and offer a couple of additional comments. On Debian Buster with Gnome, pretty vanilla except for google-chrome and some R packages from r-cran, I downloaded the Zoom .deb package and installed it [1], as root, in /opt, with no dependency issues that another responder noted might interfere. The only issue of any consequence was that on a 15 inch 3840 x 2160 screen, the boxes were quite small and the print in the window titles and popups was too small to read w/o a strong magnifier. It took a while, but of searching in Zoom's FAQs provided a solution [2]. Security issues whooped up in the media seem to fall mostly into one or more of three boxes: Affect (or are known to affect) only Macs; Have been corrected, some quite a while ago; User error (e. g., setting up for zoom-bombing by failing to use a password, using an obvious password, or letting the password leak. Some appear unworthy of much concern, like early use of 128 bit AES for session encryption. Clearly of interest if a meeting concerns national security or other public policy matters, or important organization or personal privacy matters. Most personal/family communications probably do not involve such things. Running it in a VM might improve security, although one responder mentioned sound pass-through as an issue, and setup, at best, would be more work. Dedicated hardware, if you have it probably would be a better choice for isolation. An alternative would be to install Debian and Zoom on a USB key or drive. I would expect USB2 to be adequate, although maybe a bit sluggish at times. You also could put the machine on a guest WiFi to isolate it from other machines. As with all software, keep it up to date. With Zoom's present rate of update, that could be as often as before every use. All the other users also should keep theirs up to date. Zoom users, of course, should be aware (a) that free subscriptions are not encrypted end-to-end and (b) Zoom cooperates with law enforcement agencies, probably meaning that they will allow interception if presented with an appropriate warrant (in the US; other nations' laws are different). Cloud session storage might also be an issue, although the Debian client session recording appears to be local when activated. Regards, Tom Dial [1] Using apt install, and the absolute path, instead of dpkg, may have helped resolve dependencies; I have seen reports to that effect. [2] scaleFactor=2 in .config/zoomus.conf instead of default scaleFactor=1.
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