Tell HN: Zoom removed the dial-in and join from your browser options

9 points

6 years ago

> Zoom will be placing the Web Client into maintenance mode and take this part of the service offline. This will also impact users utilizing Zoom’s Web SDK. This will have no impact on users utilizing Zoom’s desktop or mobile application. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause. https://status.zoom.us/incidents/16ll08mmddk6

I used to visit to this page [1] to join Zoom meetings from Canada using my phone because I don’t like using the desktop/mobile app, much less these days with all the security issues people have found. But today I realized the dial-in numbers are not there anymore. I tried to join the same meeting using the “join from your browser” [2] option that appears once you cancel the installer download, but it now returns a “403 Forbidden” error message, meaning the page was completely removed.

EDIT: They are planning to put these features back online in the future [20,21,22,23].

I cannot believe Zoom is forcing customers to use the desktop and mobile apps after so many people complained about their bad security practices [4..19].

[1] https://zoom.us/zoomconference

[2] https://i.imgur.com/YGcIYaf.png

[3] https://i.imgur.com/NuoqqSJ.png

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22768494 - Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22762173 - ‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749105 - Ex-NSA hacker drops zero-day for Zoom

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22746764 - Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742565 - Trolls break into meetings on Zoom

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736608 - How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’

[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22735746 - Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

[11] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708233 - Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

[12] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703000 - Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

[13] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693792 - Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account

[14] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22664219 - Using Zoom? Here are the privacy issues you need to be aware of

[15] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22659216 - Show HN: Zoom Redirector

[16] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657384 - Zoom monitors activity on your computer

[17] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20407233 - Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server

[18] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20390755 - Zoom is reinstalling itself after a minute of being uninstalled [video]

[19] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20387298 - Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

[20] https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector/issues/7

[21] https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-progress-web-sdk-web-client-from-browser-403-forbidden/10782

[22] https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-progress-web-sdk-web-client-from-browser-403-forbidden/10782/40

[23] https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-progress-web-sdk-web-client-from-browser-403-forbidden/10782/58