I quoted this Zoom blog post in another post I wrote and upon re-reading it I noticed something fun! We know now that if your company wants end-to-end encryption you have to be a paying customer. What I didn’t realize, and what makes a lot of sense, is that if you want to use it with meeting rooms and phone systems you are going to have to use Zoom Rooms and Zoom Phone! It is obviously so they can control the end points, but it also adds some critical incentive for customers to switch all of their communications over to Zoom.
https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keyb…
“These end-to-end encrypted meetings will not support phone bridges, cloud recording, or non-Zoom conference room systems. Zoom Rooms and Zoom Phone participants will be able to attend if explicitly allowed by the host. … We believe this will provide equivalent or better security than existing consumer end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms, but with the video quality and scale that has made Zoom the choice of over 300 million daily meeting participants, including those at some of the world’s largest enterprises.”
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It also took me a while to realize that end-to-end encryption requires end-to-end CONTROL. Since security [secrecy] is such an important aspect of business, security is also a good moat and a good money maker.
Denny Schlesinger
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