[BLU/Officers] Online meetings

[Bill Ricker]

Zoom has a terrible privacy policy.

The Security/Privacy community generally considers Zoom to be
indistinguishable from Malware.
It does "focus tracking" and will (can be set to) ratfink on attendees who
are (perhaps) listening to but not watching the presentation or cluster of
faces to the meeting organizer.
(I can see how that is* perceived* as beneficial to instructors and Bosses
counting attendance / measuring "engagement".)
Suggestion is that the full list of programs running on your device is
available to Zoom and may be available to meeting organizer.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis
https://twitter.com/Ouren/status/1241398181205889024
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1148431315190067200?s=19

Now if JABR is the meeting organizer this may not bother *him*,
but should BLU as ethical FLOSS advocates be encouraging folks to use
things EFF advises against?
(or encouraging folks to trust JABR with their privacy? :-D )

// bill
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