[BLU/Officers] Online meetings

[John Abreau]

If Zoom is unacceptable, then I imagine skype, hangouts, and the other
options mentioned previously will likely also have issues. It sounds like
you think it would be bad to even test Zoom.

I looked through those links, and a couple of them recommend Jitsi as an
alternative. Apparently we could run our own blu.org jitsi server on our
hardware.

Shall we test jjitsi instead, or do you have some other platform in mind
that we should try? I'd really like to try out something suitable this week
for holding an officers meeting with at least 3 participants.



On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:53 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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